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USS YMS331

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Photographer:
dirk septer [ View profile ]
Captured:
Jun 21, 2014
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Aug 16, 2019
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Squirrel Cove, Cortes Island, BC; June 21, 2014;

built 1943 by Ballard Marine Railway Co., Seattle, WA;
launched April 24, 1943; commissioned September 10, 1943;
L x B x D: 136' x 24'6" x 8'; 270 gt.;
damaged by Japanese suicide Explosive Motor Boat off Okinawa, April 15, 1945;
struck off Naval Register October 29, 1946;
transferred to the War Shipping Administration
and sold February 18, 1948

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I meant the 20 years 1948 to late 60s.

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@davidships: 20 years missing?.... has been on that beach since the late 60s....

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Thanks Dirk - still 20 years missing!!

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YMS331 was one of two YMS vessels that were used as breakwater hulks for a time at Mahood's log pond at Wolfson (Lang) Creek, south of Powell River, BC. It was towed up there by Henry Pavid sometime in the 1960s. A boatbuilder at Squirrel Cove, BC acquired one for a breakwater up there. According to another source, this Squirrel Cove resident wanted to use the vessel as some sort of tour boat but that a storm pushed the vessel too high onto the beach that it could not be taken off again. An effort to burn the vessel was not successful as it would not want to burn (too waterlogged). YMS331 was damaged 15 April 1945 W of Naha (Okinawa) by an Explosive Motor Boat at 26'15" N, 127'36" E in a sort of Kamakazi attack.

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Any idea on her 1946-2014 history and how she came to be in BC?

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