USS YMS-61

USS YMS-61
Career
Name:	USS YMS-61
Commissioned:	23 June 1942
Decommissioned:	19 June 1946
General characteristics
Class & type:	YMS-1-class minesweeper
Displacement:	320 long tons (325 t)
Length:	136 ft (41 m)
Beam:	24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
Draft:	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Propulsion:	2 × General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
Speed:	13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement:	33
Armament:	• 1 × 3"/50 caliber gun • 2 × 20 mm guns • 2 × Depth charge tracks • 2 × Depth charge projectors

USS YMS-61 was a United States Navy YMS-1-class auxiliary motor minesweeper during World War II. She was laid down 23 September 1941 by the Gibbs Gas Engine Co. She was commissioned on 23 June 1942. Assigned to the Caribbean she operated in the former Netherland Antilles. She was struck from the Naval Registry on 19 June 1946.