USCGC Yamacraw (WARC-333)
![]() Army Mine Planter USAMP MP-7 leaving builder.
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Name | Maj. Gen. Arthur Murray |
Namesake | Major General Arthur Murray, first Chief of the Coast Artillery Corps |
Builder | Marietta Manufacturing Company, Point Pleasant, West Virginia |
Laid down | 1941 as USAMP Maj. Gen. Arthur Murray for the U.S. Army |
Launched | 1942 |
In service | 1942 |
Out of service | 2 January 1945 |
Fate | Transfer to Navy |
![]() USS Trapper (ACM 9) near Charleston Navy Yard, SC after conversion
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History | |
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Name | Trapper |
Acquired | 2 January 1945 |
Commissioned | 15 March 1945 |
Decommissioned | 20 June 1946 |
Stricken | 19 July 1946 |
Fate | Transferred to the Coast Guard, 20 June 1946 |
![]() USCGC Yamacraw (WARC-333) from Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
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Name | Yamacraw |
Namesake | Native American tribe that settled near Savannah, Georgia |
Acquired | 20 June 1946 |
Fate | Transferred to the US Navy, 17 April 1959 |
![]() Cable repair ship USS Yamacraw (ARC-5) at anchor.
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Name | Yamacraw |
Acquired | 17 April 1959 |
Commissioned | 30 April 1959 |
Decommissioned | 2 July 1965 |
Stricken | 2 July 1965 |
Fate | Sold for scrap 18 October 1967, withdrawn for scrapping 2 November 1967 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Chimo-class minelayer |
Displacement | 1,320 long tons (1,341 t) |
Length | 188 ft 2 in (57.35 m) |
Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) |
Speed | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
Complement | 69 |
Armament | 1 × 40 mm gun |
USCGC Yamacraw (WARC-333) was a
On 20 June 1946 the ship was renamed Yamacraw with the number WARC-333 serving as a cable ship with the Coast Guard with a loan to the
Maj. Gen. Arthur Murray (1942–1945)
U.S. Army Mine Planter (USAMP) Maj. Gen. Arthur Murray (MP-9), keel laid in 1941 as hull 482, was launched in 1942 by the Marietta Manufacturing Company at
The
By 1944 the threat of attack on the U.S. coast had faded and the Coast Artillery began releasing mine planters for other uses.[1]
USS Trapper (1945–1946)
On 2 January 1945 the mine planter was acquired by the Navy and converted into a Chimo class auxiliary minelayer by the
Trapper began shakedown training in the
Trapper arrived at
USCGC Yamacraw (1946–1959)
USS Trapper was decommissioned and transferred to the United States Coast Guard in San Francisco on 20 June 1946 and struck from the Navy List on 19 July 1946. The former auxiliary minelayer served with the Coast Guard as a cable layer until early 1959 as Yamacraw (WARC-333).[5] Up until 1946 the Coast Guard was responsible for Navy cable laying operations as well as its own. In 1922 the Coast Guard had obtained the 1909 Army Mine Planter Gen. Samuel M. Mills which it renamed Pequot, second USCG cable ship with the name,[note 1] for service until replaced by Yamacraw in 1946.[6]
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Work
During 1957–1958 the ship was leased by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution making voyages in the Atlantic and Mediterranean largely for acoustic and geophysical work.[7][8]
During 1957 a 600 ft (182.9 m) long
Onionhead
Before being transferred back to the U.S. Navy the Yamacraw was the buoy tender in the 1958 film Onionhead, which starred Andy Griffith and Walter Matthau.[12][13]
USS Yamacraw (1959–1965)
The ship was reacquired by the U.S. Navy on 17 April 1959 and commissioned in New York on 30 April 1959 as the Cable Repair Ship USS Yamacraw (ARC-5), 30 April 1959. Yamacraw was assigned to the
One of the operations for ONR involved a test of a cable towed oceanographic instrumentation system. The test tow, conducted 13 to 17 April 1962, proved the feasibility of towing the system to a depth of 5,000 ft (1,524.0 m) at speeds up to 7 kn (8.1 mph; 13 km/h).[15]
Decommissioning and disposal
Yamacraw was decommissioned 2 July 1965 and transferred to the
Footnotes
- USCGC Pequot(1919–1922).
- ^ The Navy sponsored intense study of ocean acoustics for antisubmarine systems, particularly surveillance systems. The distribution lists and sponsors have considerable overlap with those responsible for the Sound Surveillance System; i.e. Bureau of Ships (SOSUS project office), Hudson Laboratories, and Bell Laboratories.
References
- ^ a b c Roberts, Stephen S. (29 December 2008). "Class: CHIMO (ACM-1)". Shipscribe.
- ^ Colton, Tim (1 December 2016). "U.S. Army Mine Craft (MP, JMP, L, M) Built During WWII". Shipbuilding History. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f Naval History And Heritage Command (30 September 2015). "Trapper". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History And Heritage Command.
- ^ Jones, Henry L. (1941). "Increase in the CAC'S Navy" (PDF). Coast Artillery Journal. No. November–December 2941. pp. 589–590.
- ^ "USCGC Yamacraw, WARC-333" (PDF). U.S. Coast Guard. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 February 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
- ^ Eckel, R. W.; Snow, R. (1975). "Coast Guard Land Line Communications 1873 through 1974". The Coast Guard Engineer's Digest (January – February – March 1975). U. S. Coast Guard: 67. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Yamacraw (W333) 1957-1958". Vessels and Submarines owned, operated or leased by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
- ^ "ARC-1, Yamacraw (ARC-5) & Nashawena (AG-142)". Archived from the original on 9 May 2008. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
- ^ "A Guide to the Allyn Collins Vine Papers, 1937-1998". Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
- ^ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (November 1959). Quarterly Progress Report Submitted to the Bureau of Ships: Sonar Research conducted during the period 1 April 1959 – 30 June 1959 (PDF) (Report). Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 June 2022.
- ^ Frassetto, Roberto (23 July 1959). A Preliminary Survey of Thermal Microstrueture in the Strait of Gibraltar (Report).
- ^ "Coast Guard History FAQ: The Coast Guard in Films". U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office. 21 December 2016. Archived from the original on 14 January 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
- ^ Oceanography 1960 to 1970 (Report). Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences. 1959. p. 18. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
- ^ Gay, S. M.; Clark, A. P. (December 1962). Preliminary Development and Test of a Cable-towed Oceanographic Instrumentation System (Report). pp. 1, 3, Appendix 2 II-2.
- ^ Maritime Administration. "YAMACRAW (ARC-5)". Ship History Database Vessel Status Card. U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration.
External links
- Coast Artillery Corps—Army Mine Planter Service
- Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940–1945 ACM-9 USS Trapper
- Photo gallery of USCGC Yamacraw (WARC-333) at NavSource Naval History
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution – Yamacraw
- Onionhead capture: At 42 minutes into the movie the YAMACRAW WAGL-333 is clearly identifiable.
- ARC-1, Yamacraw (ARC-5) & Nashawena (AG-142)
- Photo: USS Yamacraw (ARC-5)
- Photo: Yamacraw Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)