USCGC Yamacraw (WARC-333)

Army Mine Planter USAMP MP-7 leaving builder.
History
United States
Name	Maj. Gen. Arthur Murray
Namesake	Major General Arthur Murray, first Chief of the Coast Artillery Corps
Builder	Marietta Manufacturing Company, Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Laid down	1941 as USAMP Maj. Gen. Arthur Murray for the U.S. Army
Launched	1942
In service	1942
Out of service	2 January 1945
Fate	Transfer to Navy
USS Trapper (ACM 9) near Charleston Navy Yard, SC after conversion
History
United States
Name	Trapper
Acquired	2 January 1945
Commissioned	15 March 1945
Decommissioned	20 June 1946
Stricken	19 July 1946
Fate	Transferred to the Coast Guard, 20 June 1946
USCGC Yamacraw (WARC-333) from Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
Name	Yamacraw
Namesake	Native American tribe that settled near Savannah, Georgia
Acquired	20 June 1946
Fate	Transferred to the US Navy, 17 April 1959
Cable repair ship USS Yamacraw (ARC-5) at anchor.
Name	Yamacraw
Acquired	17 April 1959
Commissioned	30 April 1959
Decommissioned	2 July 1965
Stricken	2 July 1965
Fate	Sold for scrap 18 October 1967, withdrawn for scrapping 2 November 1967
General characteristics
Class and type	Chimo-class minelayer
Displacement	1,320 long tons (1,341 t)
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

USCGC Yamacraw (WARC-333) was a United States Coast Guard Cable Repair Ship. The ship was built for the Army Mine Planter Service as U. S. Army Mine Planter Maj. Gen. Arthur Murray (MP-9) delivered December 1942. On 2 January 1945 the ship was acquired by the Navy, converted to an Auxiliary Minelayer and commissioned USS Trapper (ACM-9) on 15 March 1945. Trapper was headed to the Pacific when Japan surrendered. After work in Japanese waters the ship headed for San Francisco arriving there 2 May 1946 for transfer to the Coast Guard.

On 20 June 1946 the ship was renamed Yamacraw with the number WARC-333 serving as a cable ship with the Coast Guard with a loan to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 1957-1958 before re acquisition by the Navy 17 April 1959. The Navy retained the name commissioning Yamacraw on 30 April 1959 with the designation of cable repair ship ARC-5. The ship supported acoustical, geophysical and other oceanographic projects of the Office of Naval Research and for the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Yamacraw was decommissioned 2 July 1965 and transferred to the Maritime Administration for disposal the same day. The ship was purchased by North American Smelting for scrap.