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Barbicon (ACM 5)



Barricade served the US Army, Navy and Coast Guard

Chimo Class Auxiliary Minelayer: Laid down, 1941 for the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, Mine Planter Service as Colonel George Armistead at Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, WV; Launched, 1942; Transferred to the Navy, 6 January 1945 and converted to an Auxiliary Minelayer at Charleston Navy Yard; Commissioned USS Barbicon (ACM 5), 24 March 1945; Decommissioned, 12 June 1946 and transferred to the Coast Guard; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Commissioned, 21 April 1947 and renamed USCGC Ivy (WLB 329); Decommissioned, 26 November 1969. 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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Ivy 28k Seen here as USCGC Ivy (WLB329) U. S. Coast Guard

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