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Wassuc (CMc 3)



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Wassuc Class Coastal Minelayer: Built in 1924 as the steel hulled coastal passenger ship SS Yale by the New Jersey Drydock and Transportation Corp., Elizabethport, NJ; Acquired by the Navy, 20 December 1940 and converted to a Coastal Minelayer at New York Navy Yard; Classified as CMc-3, 30 December 1940; Renamed Wassuc, 10 January 1941; Commissioned USS Wassuc (CMc 3), 15 May 1941; Decommissioned at Norfolk Navy Yard, 8 November 1945; Struck from the Navy Register, 28 November 1945; Sold for scrap 3 August 1948 to Patapsco Scrap Corp. of Bethlehem, PA.

Specifications: Displacement 1,830 t.; Length 230' 6"; Beam 42'; Draft 12' 8"; Speed 13 kts; Complement 85; Armament two 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts, four .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion two Scotch boilers, two 2,000shp Hewes & Phillips vertical triple expansion, no reduction gear, two shafts.
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Wassuc 53k c. July 1944 Hyperwar U.S. Navy in World War II
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