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Stadium Boat Works, Cleveland OH

Most recent update: October 16, 2010.

Stadium Boat Works was started as Stadium Yacht Basin around 1935 and closed in 1957.  The yard was at the foot of West 3rd Street, by the Cleveland Browns Stadium.  If anyone can add to the table below, please e-mail it to me at timcolton@aol.com.

Customer Type Navy Type Pennant # Tons Delivery Disposition
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 76 278 4-Jun-42 Struck 1946
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 77 278 15-May-42 To France 1944 as D 202, mined off Marseilles and lost 1944
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 78 278 17-Jun-42 To France 1944 as Belledone (D 318), to Vietnam 1954 as Bach Dang (HQ 113), discarded
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 79 278 26-Jun-42 To Turkey 1947 as Kas, struck 1963
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 80 278 15-Jul-42 Reclassified 1947 as Albatross (AMS 1), sold private 1959, disposition unknown
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 81 278 28-Jul-42 Sold 1948
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 82 278 10-Aug-42 To France 1944 as Dahlia (D 325), sold private 1959, sunk off Martinique
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 83 278 30-Aug-42 To France 1944 as Digitale (D 326), to Vietnam 1954 as Choung Dong (HQ 116), discarded
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 235 278 20-Jul-43 Struck 1946
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 236 278 23-Jun-43 To Britain 1943 as BYMS 2236
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 237 278 20-Nov-42 To the USSR 1945 as T-589
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 238 278 23-Nov-42 Reclassified 1947 as Flamingo (AMS 11) 
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 239 278 16-Apr-43 To Turkey 1947 as Kerempe, struck 1966
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 240 278 25-May-43 To Britain 1943 as BYMS 2240, to Greece 1946 as Ithaki, struck 1966
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 389 278 15-Aug-43 Struck 1946
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 390 278 30-Aug-43 Sold private 1946, disposition unknown
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 391 278 19-Sep-43 Struck 1946
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 392 278 11-Oct-43 To South Korea 1947 as Kang Kae, disposition unknown
US Navy Sub Chaser PCS 1413 278 16-Nov-43 Later Elsmere
US Navy Sub Chaser PCS 1414 278 22-Nov-43  
US Navy Sub Chaser PCS 1415 278   Completed as YMS 460
US Navy Sub Chaser PCS 1416 278   Completed as YMS 461
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 460 278 27-May-44 Originally PCS 1415, to the USSR 1945 as T 183, scrapped 1954
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 461 278 21-Jun-44 Originally PCS 1416, later Swallow (AMS 36), to Japan 1955 as Yugeshima (MSC 660), scrapped 1969
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 414 278 6-Sep-44 Struck 1946
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 415 278 1-Oct-44 Reclassified 1947 as Chatterer (AMS 40), to Japan 1955 as Yurishima (MSC 661), scrapped 1969
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 416 278 21-Oct-44 Struck 1946
US Navy Minesweeper YMS 417 278 10-Nov-44 Reclassified 1947 as Merganser (AMS 26), later Miss Juanita, scrapped 1960