USS Creddock
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United States | |
Name | USS PCE-916 |
Builder | Willamette Iron and Steel Works |
Laid down | 10 November 1943 |
Renamed | USS Creddock (AM-356) |
Launched | 22 July 1944 |
Commissioned | 18 December 1945 |
Decommissioned | 26 March 1946 |
Reclassified | MSF-356, 7 February 1955 |
Fate | Transferred to Myanmar, 1967 |
History | |
Myanmar | |
Name | UMS Yan Gyi Aung (M42) |
Acquired | 1967 |
Status | in active service |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | PCE-905-class patrol craft |
Class and type | Admirable-class minesweeper, September 1943 |
Displacement | 650 long tons (660 t) |
Length | 184 ft 6 in (56.24 m) |
Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 9 in (2.97 m) |
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Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Complement | 104 |
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USS Creddock (AM-356) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was ordered and laid down as PCE-905-class patrol craft USS PCE-916 but was renamed and reclassified before her July 1944 launch as Creddock (AM-356). Creddock was launched 22 July 1944 by Willamette Iron and Steel Works, Portland, Oregon; sponsored by Miss N. I. Schmidleys; and commissioned 18 December 1945. Creddock departed Astoria, Oregon, 6 January 1946 and arrived at San Diego, California, 4 days later. There she was placed out of commission in reserve 26 March 1946. Creddock was reclassified MSF-356 on 7 February 1955.
In 1967, Creddock was transferred to the Burmese Navy (later, the Myanmar Navy), where she is classed as a patrol corvette under the name UMS Yan Gyi Aung (M42); she is in active service.
References
[edit]This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
[edit]- Photo gallery of Creddock at NavSource Naval History
- PCE-905-class patrol craft
- Admirable-class minesweepers
- Ships built in Portland, Oregon
- 1944 ships
- World War II patrol vessels of the United States
- World War II minesweepers of the United States
- Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the Myanmar Navy
- Corvettes of the Myanmar Navy
- Corvettes of Myanmar
- United States naval ship stubs