Army officer Col. William A. Glassford (1853-1931)
Nashawena Island, Massachusetts
Owner
U.S. Army (1943—1947)
U.S. Navy (1947—1959)
Commercial (1959—1975?)
Builder
Seattle Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corporation, Seattle, Washington
Laid down
1943
Acquired
from the U.S. Army, 20 June 1947
Commissioned
20 June 1947 as USS Nashawena (AG-142)
Decommissioned
17 August 1953, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California
Reclassified
YAG-35, 9 September 1947
Homeport
Mare Island, California
Fate
Sold, 1 June 1960, renamed Omega, scrapped 1975?
Notes
Official number: 285876 (after commercial sale)
General characteristics
Type
cable layer
Tonnage
602 tons
Length
154 ft (46.9 m)
Beam
36 ft (11.0 m)
Draft
6 ft (1.8 m)
Propulsion
3 x diesel, 3 screw
Speed
10 knots
Complement
29 officers and enlisted
Armament
none
Notes
Flat bottomed barge, capable of beaching.
USS Nashawena (AG-142/YAG-35) was a U.S. Navy cable layer constructed during World War II for the Army as the wooden-hulled self-propelled barge BSP 2008. The barge was completed converted to cable work for U.S. Army Signal Corps as the cable ship Col. William. A. Glassford supporting the Alaska Communications System in the shallow island waters of Alaska.[note 1] She was transferred to the U.S. Navy in 1947 as a miscellaneous auxiliary and assigned to cable-laying duties for the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
The ship was sold to commercial interests in 1960 becoming United States Underseas Cable Corporation's Omega in 1961. Omega did cable work in the Navy's Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) and laid shore ends for part of the Air Force's Atlantic Missile Range and the Vietnam Coastal Network connecting coastal centers in Vietnam and a terminus in Thailand. In 1971 the ship, along with the company's larger cable layer were sold to a Liberian registered company set up to buy the two ships. Omega ceased cable operations after the sale and may have been scrapped in 1975.
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