USS Flamingo (AMS-11)
Minesweeper of the United States Navy
History
United States
Name USS YMS-238
Builder
Laid down 11 May 1942
Launched 12 September 1942
Acquired 23 November 1942
Commissioned 23 November 1942
Renamed USS Flamingo (AMS-11), 18 February 1947
Namesake the flamingo bird
Reclassified MSC(O)-11, 7 February 1955
Stricken 1 November 1959
Fate Unknown
General characteristics
Displacement 270 tons
Length 136 ft (41 m)
Beam 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
Draft 8 ft (2.4 m)
Propulsion
Speed 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement 32
Armament
USS Flamingo (MSC(O)-11/AMS-11/YMS-238) was a YMS-1 -class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass built for the United States Navy during World War II . She was the third U.S. Navy ship to be named for the flamingo .
History
Flamingo was laid down as YMS-238 on 11 May 1942 by Stadium Yacht Basin, Inc. of Cleveland , Ohio; launched, 12 September 1942; completed and commissioned on 23 November 1942.
On 10 November 1944, YMS-238 was damaged when ammunition ship Mount Hood exploded in Seeadler Harbor at Manus Island .[ 1]
YMS-238 was renamed and reclassified as USS Flamingo (AMS-11) on 18 February 1947. She was further reclassified as MSC(O)-11 on 7 February 1955.
Flamingo was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 November 1959. Her fate is unknown.
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Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in November 1944
Shipwrecks
1 Nov: USS Abner Read , TA20 , HMS Whitaker
2 Nov: Fort Lee
3 Nov: Akikaze
5 Nov: Kiebitz , Nachi , PB-107 , TA21
7 Nov: USS Albacore , HM LST-420
8 Nov: USS Growler
9 Nov: U-537
10 Nov: Gokoku Maru , USS Mount Hood
11 Nov: Hamanami , Naganami , USS Scamp , Shimakaze , U-771 , U-1200 , Wakatsuki
12 Nov: HMAS Marlean , Tirpitz
13 Nov: Akebono , Akishimo , Hatsuharu , Hatsu Maru , I-12 , I-38 , Kiso , Okinami
17 Nov: USS LST-6 , Mayasan Maru , NKI 01 , Shin'yō (ex-Scharnhorst )
18 Nov: I-41 , Seisho Maru
20 Nov: USS Mississinewa , HMAS ML 827
21 Nov: Kongō , Urakaze
22 Nov: Hokkai Maru , HMS Stratagem
24 Nov: Hansa
25 Nov: Kumano , HMCS Shawinigan , Shimotsuki , Sumida , U-482 , Yasoshima
27 Nov: Rigel
28 Nov: U-80 , PB-105 , Yu 2
29 Nov: Fushimi , I-365 , Shinano
Unknown date: Mogador , U-479 , U-1020
Other incidents
10 Nov: USS Abarenda , USS Alhena , USS Argonne , USS Aries , USS Cacapon , USS Cebu , HMS Hydra , USS Kyne , USS Lyman , USS Mindanao , USS Oberrender , USS Petrof Bay , USS Piedmont , USS Potawatomi , USS Preserver , USS Saginaw Bay , USS Talbot , USS Walter C. Wann , USS YMS-238 , USS Young
13 Nov: U-1052
17 Nov: HMAS ML 827 , Seisho Maru
23 Nov: Gus W. Darnell
27 Nov: USS Gar
28 Nov: USS Spearfish
30 Nov: HMS Duff