USS Wassuc (CMc-3)
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Name | USS Wassuc |
Builder | New Jersey Drydock and Transportation Co., Elizabethport, New Jersey |
Launched | 1924, as SS Yale |
Acquired | by the US Navy, 20 December 1940 |
Commissioned | 15 May 1941 |
Decommissioned | 8 November 1945 |
Renamed | Wassuc , 10 January 1941 |
Reclassified | CMc-3, 30 December 1940 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 1948 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Cargo ship / Auxiliary minelayer |
Displacement | 1,830 long tons (1,859 t) full load |
Length | 230 ft 6 in (70.26 m) |
Beam | 42 ft (13 m) |
Draft | 10 ft (3.0 m) max. |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Complement | 85 |
Armament |
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USS Wassuc (CMc-3), originally a steel-hulled, coastal passenger vessel built in 1924 at
East Coast operations
After commissioning, USS Wassuc proceeded south; touched at Norfolk, Virginia; and then sailed back northward to the Washington Navy Yard where she arrived on 4 June. She subsequently moved to the Mine Warfare School at Yorktown, Virginia, on 23 June, where she relieved USS Cormorant (AM-40), freeing that minesweeper to begin an overhaul. During her service at Yorktown, Wassuc participated in experimental mine work under the aegis of the Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd).
Completing that tour in mid-August, Wassuc moved to the Marine Basin at
Wassuc spent the next two years operating in the
By 1944, Wassuc was the only coastal minelayer on the U.S. Navy inventory. The
Decommissioning
Decommissioned at the
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.