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YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper

Type: Minesweeper
Displacement: 270 tons
Length: 136 ft (41 m)
Beam: 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
Draft: 8 ft (2.4 m)

Propulsion:
2 × 880 bhp (660 kW) General Motors 8-268A diesel engines
2 shafts
Speed: 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement: 32

Armament:
1 × QF 12 pdr 18 cvt gun
2 × 12.7 mm guns

YMS-2 Ladya (ex YMS-334) Transferred to Thailand in 1947 and Decommissioned 1964
YMS-3 Bangkeo (ex YMS-138) Transferred to Thailand in 1947 and Decommissioned 1964
YMS-4 Ta Din Daeng (ex YMS-353) Transferred to Thailand in 1947 and Decommissioned 1965

Real Hellas also had these minesweepers and one uncle from my mother side (husband of my mother's sister) served on YMS in mid 1960's during his military duty in Navy.

Nice to see YMS minesweepers in Shipbucket.

Nice work!

@Odysseus1980
It's not the first YMS in SB actually.

I saw previous one as well, but could not comment then. Adter all, I have wrote in plural ("minesweepers") to include all SB YMS drawn.

odysseus1980 , eswube : thank you.

today i have small japanese submarine , my first submarine in this thread.






Matchanu class submarine
Displacement:
374.5 t (surfaced) and 430 t (submerged)
Length: 51 m
Beam: 4.1 m
Draught: 3.6 m

Propulsion:
2×8-cylinder 1,100 hp (820 kW) diesel engines
1×540 hp (400 kW) electric motor
Max Speed: 14.5 kn
Range: 4,770 nmi at 10 kn
Test depth: 60 m (200 ft)
Complement: 5 officers & 28 crew

Armament:
1×76/25 mm gun
1×8 mm gun
4×450 mm torpedo tubes (8 torpedoes)

SS-1 HTMS Matchanu (II), SS-2 HTMS Wirun, SS-3 HTMS Sinsamut, and SS-4 HTMS Phlai-chumphon were commissioned on 19 July 1938. and decommissioned on 30 November 1951 because have no new japanese submarine battery.

Another excellent addition and a very fine first submarine drawing too!

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Fantastic addition.

I think that these were the only export Japanese submarines of the period, Thailand had also a pair of Japanese cruisers in that era.

Thailand was maybe the biggest owner for export japanese war ships. The Siamese navy (still named Siam when they were commissioned) manned japanese sloops (Tachin class) and coast defence battleships (Sri Ayuthia class), but no cruisers.
Two light cruisers were ordered in 1938 but to " Cantieri Riuniti dell 'Adriatico" (Trieste, Monfalcone, Italy).

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Beautiful work.