Ordered as YMS-195 Commissioned 20 March 1943 Struck 3 July 1946 Construction started 3 April 1942 Length 42 m Displacement 290,300 kg | Laid down 3 April 1942 Decommissioned 1946 Fate foundered, 1963 Launched 10 August 1942 Weight 325.1 tons Draft 1.85 m | |
USS Chauvenet (AGS-11/YMS-195) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was constructed as USS YMS-195 at the Hiltebrant Dry Dock Company of Kingston, New York, and was laid down on 3 April 1942, launched on 10 August 1942, and commissioned on 20 March 1943.
On 20 March 1945, YMS-195 was reclassified as a survey ship and redesignated USS Chauvenet (AGS-11). After decommissioning, Chauvenet was sold to a British firm in 1947 and renamed Zipper. She was lost off South America in a storm in 1963.
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