A YMS-1-class minesweeper
History
United States
Ordered	as YMS-195
Laid down	3 April 1942
Launched	10 August 1942
Commissioned	20 March 1943
Decommissioned	1946
Stricken	3 July 1946
Fate	Foundered, 1963
General characteristics
Displacement	320 tons
Length	136 ft (41 m)
Beam	24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
Draught	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h)
Complement	33
Armament	one 3 in (76 mm) gun mount, two 20 mm machine guns

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.

References

• Radigan, Joseph M. (2005). "Chauvenet (AGS 11), ex-YMS-195". NavSource.org. Retrieved 22 October 2009.
• Nelson, Stewart B. (1971). Oceanographic Ships, Fore and Aft. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy; Government Printing Office. pp. 111, 116. LCCN 71614043. Retrieved 3 May 2020.