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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1959}} | Ship name=USS YMS-201 | Ship builder=*Hiltebrant Dry Dock Co. | Ship laid down=28 August 1942 | Ship launched=19 November 1942 | Ship sponsor= | Ship completed=24 July 1943 | Ship commissioned=Date unknown | Ship reclassified=AMS-6, 17 February 1947
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=yes | Ship renamed=Courser, 18 February 1947
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=yes | Ship namesake=Probably the courser bird[1] | Ship reclassified=MSC(O)-6, 7 February 1955
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=yes | Ship decommissioned=Date unknown | Ship struck=1 November 1959 | Ship honors= | Ship fate=Unknown
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | 135|1}} | Ship displacement=270 t | 136|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 24|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | 8|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship depth= | Ship hold depth= | Ship power= | Ship propulsion=*2 × 880 bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines | 15|kn|km/h}} | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship complement=32 | Ship crew= | Ship time to activate= | Ship troops= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=*1 × 3"/50 caliber dual purpose gun mount- 2 × 20 mm guns
- 2 × depth charge projectors
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}} | USS Courser (MSC(O)-6/AMS-6/YMS-201) was a {{YMSsub|135}} built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was the second ship of the U.S. Navy to be named Courser. HistoryCourser was laid down as YMS-201 on 28 August 1942 by the Hiltebrant Dry Dock Co. of Kingston, New York; launched 19 November 1942; and completed 24 July 1943. On 17 February 1947, YMS-201 was reclassified as AMS-6, and named Courser the following day. Courser was reclassified MSC(O)-6 on 7 February 1955. Courser was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 November 1959. Her ultimate fate is unknown. References 1. ^The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships says that she was named after ”one who moves from one point to another or pursues a quarry”. When given names, however, other former YMSs redesignated as AMSs were named after birds.
{{Refbegin}}- {{cite web | first = Joseph M. | last = Radigan | url = http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/19201.htm | title = Courser (MSC[O] 6), ex-AMS-6, ex-YMS-201 | work = NavSource Online | publisher = NavSource Naval History | date = 2005 | accessdate = 2007-12-29 }}
- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c14/courser-ii.htm}}
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