USS Barbican
USCGC IVY (WLB-329) | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Barbican (ACM-5) |
| Builder | Marietta Manufacturing Company, Point Pleasant, West Virginia |
| Yard number | 476 |
| Laid down | as USAMP Col. George Armistead for the U.S. Army |
| Acquired | 6 January 1945 |
| Commissioned | 24 March 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 12 June 1946 |
| Reclassified | ACM-5, 19 January 1945 |
| Stricken | 19 July 1946 |
| Identification | IMO number: 7230745 |
| Fate | Transferred to the Coast Guard, 18 June 1946, USCGC Ivy (WLB-329), acquired 1969 by Foss Maritime renamed as the Agnes Foss. |
| Notes | Call sign NRVB |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Chimo-class minelayer |
| Displacement | 1,320 long tons (1,341 t) full |
| 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 |
USS Barbican (ACM-5) was a Chimo-class minelayer in the United States Navy. Barbican was later commissioned in U.S. Coast Guard as USCGC Ivy (WLB / WAGL-329).
Barbican was constructed as the Army Mine planter USAMP Col. George Armistead (MP-3) by the Marietta Manufacturing Co. at Point Pleasant, West Virginia and delivered to the U.S. Army in December 1942. The ship was acquired by the U.S. Navy from the Army Coast Artillery at Charleston, South Carolina, on 6 January 1945; renamed Barbican and designated an auxiliary minelayer, ACM-5, on 19 January 1945; converted for naval service by the Charleston Navy Yard; and placed in commission there on 24 March 1945.