USS Wassuc (CMc-3)
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| 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 |
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USS Wassuc (CMc-3), originally a steel-hulled, coastal passenger vessel built in 1924 at Elizabethport, New Jersey, by the New Jersey Drydock and Transportation Corp. of New York City as SS Yale, was acquired by the U.S. Navy on 20 December 1940. SS Yale then began conversion to a coastal minelayer at the New York Navy Yard. Classified CMc-3 on 30 December 1940 and renamed USS Wassuc on 10 January 1941, the ship was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 15 May 1941.