U.S.S. Wassuc
CMc-3
1944
(Saratoga Model Shipyard SMY-79)
- Class: Wassuc - 1 coastal minelayer of 1940
- Displacement: 1,830 tons
- Dimensions: 230'6" x 42' x 12'8"
- Machinery: vertical triple-expansion, 2 screws, 2,000 SHP = 13 knots
- Armament: 1-3"/50, 4-.50in MG
- Mines:
- Complement: 85
- Builder: New Jersey Drydock and Transportation Corp, Elizabethport, NJ, 1924
- Acquired: 20 Dec 1940
- Commissioned: 15 May 1941
- Decommissioned: 8 Nov 1945
- Service: Built as the steel-hulled coastal passenger ship SS Yale. Acquired by the Navy for conversion to a Coastal Minelayer designated CMc-3 on 30 Dec 1940. Renamed USS Wassuc 10 Jan 1941. Assigned to the Mine Warfare School at Yorktown, VA, with further alterations at Fletcher's Dry Dock Repair Co in later 1941. Duties were largely training and experimental work; she did lay a small minefield off Cape Hatteras in May 1942. Continued in service along the East Coast until decommissioned. Transferred to WSA Jul 1946 and sold for scrap Aug 1948.
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