USS Chatterer (AMS-40, later MSC(O)-40), 1944-1955

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USS YMS-415, a 272-ton auxiliary motor minesweeper, was built at Cleveland, Ohio. Commissioned in October 1944, she was assigned to the Pacific, where she participated in operations off Okinawa in June 1945. Following the Japanese surrender, YMS-415 was active in mine clearance efforts in the vicinity of Japan. She was redesignated a motor minesweeper (AMS) in February 1947 and renamed Chatterer (AMS-40).

Stationed in Japan when the Korean War began in June 1950, Chatterer soon joined the effort to search for and clear enemy minefields in the combat zone. She was retained in the Western Pacific after the conflict ended and was redesignated MSC(O)-40 in February 1955. Chatterer was loaned to Japan the following April and renamed Yurishima for service in the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. Returned to the U.S. Navy in 1967, she was sold for scrapping in September 1969.

  
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