USS Barbican
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USS Barbican (ACM-5) was a Chimo-class minelayer in the United States Navy. Barbican was later commissioned in U.S. Coast Guard as USCGC Ivy (WLB / WAGL-329).
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USCGC IVY (WLB-329) | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Barbican (ACM-5) |
Builder | Marietta Manufacturing Company, Point Pleasant, West Virginia |
Yard number | 476 |
Laid down | as USAMP Col. George Armistead for the U.S. Army |
Acquired | 6 January 1945 |
Commissioned | 24 March 1945 |
Decommissioned | 12 June 1946 |
Reclassified | ACM-5, 19 January 1945 |
Stricken | 19 July 1946 |
Identification | IMO number: 7230745 |
Fate | Transferred to the Coast Guard, 18 June 1946, USCGC Ivy (WLB-329), acquired 1969 by Foss Maritime renamed as the Agnes Foss.[1] |
Notes | Call sign NRVB[2] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Chimo-class minelayer |
Displacement | 1,320 long tons (1,341 t) full |
Length | 188 ft 2 in (57.35 m) |
Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) |
Speed | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
Complement | 69 |
Armament | 1 × 40 mm gun[3] |
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Barbican was constructed as the Army Mine planter USAMP Col. George Armistead (MP-3) by the Marietta Manufacturing Co. at Point Pleasant, West Virginia and delivered to the U.S. Army in December 1942.[4] The ship was acquired by the U.S. Navy from the Army Coast Artillery at Charleston, South Carolina, on 6 January 1945; renamed Barbican and designated an auxiliary minelayer, ACM-5, on 19 January 1945; converted for naval service by the Charleston Navy Yard; and placed in commission there on 24 March 1945.