| BYMS (British Yard) class minesweeper |
 | | General characteristics | | Displacement: | 270 tons | | Length: | 136 ft | | Beam: | 24' 6" | | Draught: | 8 ft | | Propulsion: | General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, two shafts | | Speed: | 15 kts | | Range: | | | Complement: | 32 men | | Armament: | one single 3"/50 cal gun mount, two 20mm, and two dcp | The BYMS class was a class of wooden motor minesweepers, part of the US Navy YMS Yard class minesweepers. 150 ships destined for UK were launched from 1941 to 1943. Image File history File links Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom. ...
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USS Pivot (AM 276) World War II United States Admirable Class Minesweeper shown in the Gulf of Mexico on sea trials 12 July 1944 Image:Hameln Class. ...
The initial 80 ships were ordered by the U.S. Navy specifically for transfer to Great Britain under the Lend-Lease Programme. On transfer to Britain, BYMS-1 to BYMS-80 were assigned the British pennant numbers BYMS-2001 to BYMS-2080. Names were not assigned to the class members. The Lend-Lease program was a program of the United States during World War II that allowed the United States to provide the Allied Powers with war material without becoming directly involved in the war. ...
A further 53 BYMS' bore hull numbers from 137 to 284. These were originally built for the U.S. Navy as part of the YMS class and transferred to Britain on, or shortly after, completion. On the Navy List they were designated BYMS, with their original U.S. Navy numbers. The remaining 17 BYMS vessels were delivered in a final batch.
Calypso Jacques Cousteau’s well-known ship Calypso was originally built by the Ballard Marine Railway Company of Seattle, Washington, USA. She was a BYMS Mark 1 Class Motor Minesweeper, laid down on 12 August 1941 with the yard designation BYMS-26 and launched on 21 March 1942. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy in February 1943 as HMS J-826 and assigned to active service in the Mediterranean Sea, reclassified as BYMS-2026 in 1944, laid up at Malta and finally struck from the Naval Register in 1947. Jacques-Yves Cousteau (June 11, 1910 - June 25, 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. ...
Calypso is the name of a ship that Jacques-Yves Cousteau, one of the most important researchers in oceanography, equipped as a mobile laboratory for field research. ...
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