A YMS-1-class minesweeper | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS BYMS-2282 (J1082) |
Builder | San Diego Marine Construction Co., San Diego, California |
Laid down | 15 August 1942, as USS YMS-282 |
Launched | 30 November 1942 |
Completed | 26 August 1943 |
Stricken | 28 August 1947 |
Fate | Transferred to Poland, 18 April 1948 |
Poland | |
Name | ORP Mors |
Acquired | 18 April 1948 |
Stricken | 8 January 1957 |
Fate | Unknown |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | YMS-1-class auxiliary motor minesweeper |
Displacement | 270 long tons (274 t) |
Length | 136 ft (41 m) |
Beam | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) |
Draft | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × 880 bhp (656 kW) General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, 2 shafts |
Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 32 |
Armament |
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HMS BYMS-2282 was a BYMS-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was built as YMS-282 for the United States Navy but was transferred under Lend-Lease to the United Kingdom upon completion and never commissioned into the United States Navy. BYMS-2282 was transferred to the Polish Navy after conclusion of the war and served as ORP Mors.
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She participated, along with BYMS-2203 in the aftermath of the sinking of the RO-111 with Bangust (DE-739).
She was transferred to the Polish Navy on 18 April 1948 as ORP Mors and struck on 8 January 1957. Her ultimate fate is unknown.
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