USS Creddock (AM-356)

History
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, as of 2024
Service record
Part of:	U.S. Pacific Fleet (1944–1946) Burmese/Myanmar Navy (from 1967)
General characteristics
Class & type:	PCE-905-class patrol craft
Class & 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)
Propulsion:	2 × ALCO 539 diesel engines, Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear 2 shafts
Speed:	15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement:	104
Armament:	1 × 3"/50 caliber (76 mm) DP gun 2 × twin Bofors 40 mm guns 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 2 × Depth charge tracks

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, as of 2024.

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