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CMc-3 Wassuc


Wassuc Class Coastal Minelayer: Built 1924 by New Jersey Drydock and Transportation Corp., Elizabethport, NJ as the steel hulled coastal passenger ship SS Yale; Acquired by the Navy, 20 October 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, 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.

Specifications: Displacement 1,830 t.; Length 230' 6"; Beam 42'; Draft 10'; Speed 13 kts; Complement 85; Armament two 3"/50 gun mounts, four .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion Hewes & Phillips, type vt 3, triple expansion steam, two shafts, 2,000shp.
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