LAPWING MSC(O) 48

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper Keel laid 1 December 1942 - Launched 15 April 1943 Completed 28 June 1943 USS YMS-268 Commissioned 31 July 1943 - Decommissioned 2 August 1946 YMS-268 Placed in service as a Reserve Training Ship, 1 November 1946 Named Lapwing and reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper (AMS-48) 1 September 1947 USS LAPWING AMS-48 Recommissioned 12 February 1951 USS LAPWING MSC(O)-48 Reclassified a Coastal Minesweeper (Old) MSC(O)-48 7 February 1955 Decommissioned 17 November 1957 Struck from the Naval Register 1 November 1959 Sold in 1963 to Humphreys Railways, Inc. of Weems, VA and renamed WEEMS Sold to the Standard Products Co., Inc. of Kilmarnock, VA Sold to Yale H. Iverson of Beaufort, NC and renamed ENDEAVOR Sold in the early 1990s to a religious order from Ohio Out of documentation in 1991 and reported foundered Fate unknown.

Naval Covers

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Postmarks

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Other Information

YMS-268 earned the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ one battle star and the WWII Victory Medal for her World War II service.

NAMESAKE - Named after the lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).

The ships sponsor was Mrs. J. H. Granger.

There has been two ships of the US Navy that have borne the name LAPWING - USS Lapwing AVP-1 and USS Lapwing MSC(O)-48.

 

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