USS Creddock (AM-356)
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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 |
| Fate: | 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, Lieutenant (junior grade) J. C. Elliott, USNR, in command. 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
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- Photo gallery of Creddock at NavSource Naval History
