USS Curlew (AMS-8)
Laertes (AR-20) is flanked on her port by five minesweepers and on her starboard by five motor minesweepers at Sasebo, Japan, in 1952. USS Curlew (AMS-8) is the middle ship of the second group. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS YMS-218 |
| Builder |
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| Laid down | 18 July 1942 |
| Launched | 23 December 1942 |
| Completed | 23 June 1943 |
| Commissioned | 23 June 1943 |
| Decommissioned | early 1947 |
| Renamed | USS Curlew (AMS-8), 18 February 1947 |
| Namesake | the curlew bird |
| Recommissioned | June 1949 |
| Reclassified | MSC(O)-8, 7 February 1955 |
| Motto | Where the fleet goes, we've been! |
| Fate | Transferred to South Korea, 6 January 1956 |
| South Korea | |
| Name | ROKS Geumhwa (MSC 519) |
| Acquired | 6 January 1956 |
| United States | |
| Name | USS Curlew (MSC(O)-8) |
| Stricken | 15 November 1974 |
| Fate | disposed, c. 1977 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | YMS-135 subclass of YMS-1-class minesweepers |
| Displacement | 270 t. |
| Length | 136 ft (41 m) |
| Beam | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) |
| Draft | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement | 32 |
| Armament | |
USS Curlew (MSC(O)-8/AMS-8/YMS-218) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was the fourth U.S. Navy ship to be named for the curlew.