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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive

USCGC Magnolia (WLB 328)
ex-USCGC Magnolia (WAGL 328)

Magnolia call sign:
November - Romeo - Xray - Echo

ex-USS Barricade (ACM 3)

Barricade call sign:
Nan - Papa - Yoke - Sugar

ex-USAMP Colonel John Storey

Barricade served the U.S. Army, Navy and Coast Guard

Chimo Class Auxiliary Minelayer:

Laid down, 10 October 1941 for the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, Mine Planter Service as Colonel John Storey by the Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, WV

Launched in November 1942

Transferred to the Navy, 7 April 1944 and commissioned USS Barricade (ACM 3) the same day

Decommissioned, 28 June 1946 and transferred to the Coast Guard

Commissioned USCGC Magnolia (WAGL 328), 19 October 1947

Reclassified WLB-328 in 1965

Decommissioned, 13 August 1971

Sold to the Galaxy Fisheries, LLC, and renamed F/V Galaxy

Exploded and caught fire in the Bering Sea, 20 October 2002

Allowed to drift near St. Paul Island, AK until the fire went out and believed sunk.

Specifications:

Displacement 1,300 t.

Length 188' 2"

Beam 37'

Draft 12' 6"

Speed 12.5 kts.

Complement 69

Armament: One 40mm gun mount and four 20mm mounts

Propulsion: Two Combustion Engineering header type boilers, two 1,200shp Skinner Unaflow reciprocating engines, no reduction gear, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Barricade (ACM 3)
	23k	U.S. Navy photo from the Naval Institute Archives	Joe Radigan
	118k	27 June 1945 Underway at Jacksonville, Florida on 27 June 1945 before conversion to a minesweeper support ship. This photo shows the appearance of AMC 1 - 3 during their service in Europe in 1944 and early 1945 National Archives photos 19-N-87640 and 19-N-87641 from Shipscribe.com	Robert Hurst
	107k
	82k	c. 1945 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 79737 from Shipscribe.com
	425k	12 - 19 September 1946 Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA Aerial view of the south end of Mare Island Naval Shipyard. Ships present include: USS Oklahoma City (CL-91), USS Safeguard (ARS-25), USS Avery Island (AG-76), USS Quapaw (ATF-110), USS Eldorado (AGC-11), Barricade, USS Fieberling (DE-640), AFD-16, USS Alfred A. Cunningham (DD-752) and Endicott (YM-12). Safeguard and Avery Island were at the yard for decontamination from the Bikini Island tests, Oklahoma City is about to be decommissioned, Barricade is about to be turned over to Coast Guard, Endicott is dredging berth 18 and the others are in for repairs U.S. Navy photo courtesy of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum	Darryl Baker
USCGC Magnolia (WAGL 328)
	125k	c. 1962 U.S. Coast Guard photo	Robert Hurst
	178k	12 April 1963 U.S. Coast Guard photo	Joe Radigan
F/V Galaxy
	78k	The burned wreckage of the 180-foot Seattle-based fishing boat Galaxy floats in the Bering Sea near St. Paul Island, Alaska, about 700 miles west of Anchorage	Associated Press Photo
	65k	An unidentified vessel assisting the burning Galaxy	U.S. Coast Guard Photo
	15k	Last known location of the Galaxy	Seattle Times