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Barricade (ACM 3)



Barricade served the US Army (briefly), 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, 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; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Commissioned, 3 September 1946 and renamed USCGC Magnolia (WLB 328); Decommissioned, 13 August 1971; Sold to the Galaxy Fisheries, LLC, (date unknown), 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. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,300 t.; Length 188' 2"; Beam 37'; Draft 12' 6"; Speed 12 kts; Complement 69; Armament one 40mm gun mount, four 20mm mounts; Propulsion, steam reciprocating engines, twin screws, 1,200 shaft hp.
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Barricade 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
Barricade 65k An unidentified vessel assisting the burning Galaxy. US Coast Guard Photo
Barricade 15k Last known location of the Galaxy. Seattle Times

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