Yamacraw (ARC 5) Class: Photographs
| These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of this class and major subsequent modifications. For more views see the former NHHC (now Hyperwar) Online Library of Selected Images and the NavSource Photo Archive. |
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USS Trapper (ACM 9) Returning to San Francisco after World War II. She was originally the Army mine planter Maj. Gen. Arthur Murray (MP 9). All mine planting was done from the stern using two large cable reels on deck there. The Coast Guard renamed her Yamacraw and classed her as a cable ship. Photo No. NH 77370 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Yamacraw (ARC 5) The recently transferred Coast Guard cable ship Yamacraw (W 333) during an inclining experiment at the New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, N.Y., on 17 June 1959. Photo No. NAID 7575767 Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-NN, negatives) |
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USS Yamacraw (ARC 5) During an inclining experiment at the New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, N.Y., on 17 June 1959. For cable work the Coast Guard appears to have added a single small diameter cable sheave in the bow (barely visible here) and an even smaller diameter cable machine at the break of the forecastle. Photo No. NAID 7575772 Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-NN, negatives) |
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USS Yamacraw (ARC 5) After her austere Navy conversion with larger bow sheaves and some minor equipment transferred from Portunus (ARC 1). She never had cable wells or tanks like those in Portunus. Photo No. Unknown Source: NavSource |
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USS Yamacraw (ARC 5) At anchor after her Navy cable ship conversion, date and location unknown. Photo No. L45-314.01.01 (Naval Subjects Collection) Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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