USCGC Yamacraw (WARC-333)
Army Mine Planter USAMP MP-7 leaving builder. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| 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 | |
| History | |
| United States | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | |
| 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| Fate | Sold for scrap 18 October 1967, withdrawn for scrapping 2 November 1967 |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 & 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 |
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USCGC Yamacraw (WARC-333) was a United States Coast Guard Cable Repair Ship. The ship was built for the Army Mine Planter Service as U. S. Army Mine Planter Maj. Gen. Arthur Murray (MP-9) delivered December 1942. On 2 January 1945 the ship was acquired by the Navy, converted to an Auxiliary Minelayer and commissioned USS Trapper (ACM-9) on 15 March 1945. Trapper was headed to the Pacific when Japan surrendered. After work in Japanese waters the ship headed for San Francisco arriving there 2 May 1946 for transfer to the Coast Guard.
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 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 1957-1958 before re acquisition by the Navy 17 April 1959. The Navy retained the name commissioning Yamacraw on 30 April 1959 with the designation of cable repair ship ARC-5. The ship supported acoustical, geophysical and other oceanographic projects of the Office of Naval Research and for the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Yamacraw was decommissioned 2 July 1965 and transferred to the Maritime Administration for disposal the same day. The ship was purchased by North American Smelting for scrap.