USS Gavia (AM 363)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Minesweeper
Class	Admirable
Pennant	AM 363
Built by	Willamette Iron and Steel Corp. (Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.)
Ordered	26 Jun 1943
Laid down	8 Jul 1943
Launched	18 Sep 1943
Commissioned	23 Jul 1945
End service	29 May 1946
History	Demilitarized at Subic Bay 19 March 1946 Decommissioned 29 May 1946 at Shanghai, China and turned over to the State Department for transfer to the Chinese Maritime Customs and renamed Yung Chun (AM 52) Struck from the Naval Register 19 July 1946 Yung Chun was decommissioned on 1 July 1962.

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Kenneth Paul Billhardt, USNR	23 Jul 1945

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