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AG-40 Monomoy
USCGC Monomoy (WAG-275)
Built in 1918 at Globe Shipbuilding Co., Duluth, MN.; Acquired as J. Floyd Massey, Jr., 15 September 1941 from Steel Products Transportation Co., Buffalo, NY; Renamed Monomoy, 15 October 1941; Commissioned, USS Monomoy (AG-40), 24 December 1941. with a Coast Guard crew; Decommissioned, 22 October 1943, transferred to the Coast Guard, and recommissioned, USCGC Monomoy (WPC-275); Struck from the Naval Register, 30 October 1943; Decommissioned by the Coast Guard, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission; Final Disposition, scrapped, 1951.
Specifications: Displacement 2,580 t.; Length 261'; Beam 43' 6"; Draft 18'; Speed 10k; Complement 70; Armament one 4"/50 single gun mount, four .50 cal. machine guns, two depth charge projectors; Propulsion, triple expansion reciprocating steam engine, single shaft, 1,200shp.
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