page_title: USCGC Yamacraw (WARC-333)
hierarchical_section_title: USCGC Yamacraw (WARC-333)
caption_attribution_description: English: 16 March 1945 Near Charleston Navy Yard, SC after conversion National Archives photo 19-N-79427
context_page_description: 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 delivered December 1942. On 2 January 1945 the ship was acquired by the Navy, converted to an Auxiliary Minelayer and commissioned USS Trapper 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.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: USS Trapper (ACM 9) near Charleston Navy Yard, SC after conversion
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