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This Wikipedia page will be used to document the history and story of the YMS-375.

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: • Laid down 8 December 1942 by Greenport Basin and Construction Co., Greenport, NY • Launched 27 February 1943 • Completed 26 July 1943 • Commissioned USS YMS-375 • Damaged by a mine 8 October 1944 off Brest, France • Struck from the Navy Register 19 February 1948 • Sold to Turkey 10 May 1948 and named TCG Kozlu (M 513) • Fate unknown.

Specifications: • Displacement 245 t. • Length 136' • Beam 22' 9" • Draft 6' 3" • Speed 14.5 kts. • Complement 50

• Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose mount and two 20mm mounts; Propulsion two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.

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