Cohoes-class net laying ship

USS Yazoo, last ship of the class
Class overview
Builders:	Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon (6) Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Company, Duluth, Minnesota (3) Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin (3) Zenith Dredge Company, Duluth, Minnesota (3)
Operators:	United States Navy (15)
Built:	1944–1945
Completed:	15
General characteristics
Type:	Net laying ship
Displacement:	775 tons
Length:	168 ft 6 in (51.36 m)
Beam:	33 ft 10 in (10.31 m)
Draft:	10 ft 9 in (3.28 m)
Propulsion:	Diesel direct drive, 2,500 hp (1,900 kW), single propeller
Speed:	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement:	46 officers and enlisted
Armament:	3"/50 caliber gun

The Cohoes-class net laying ships consisted of fifteen ships built near the end of World War II for the United States Navy, the last being commissioned shortly after war's end. They were similar in appearance and construction to the predecessor Aloe class, with slight differences in dimensions and displacement. Unlike previous net-laying classes, names were taken from a variety of place names, rather than from plants. All but two were decommissioned and put into reserve by the end of 1947, but most were reactivated at various times in the early 1950s and remained active until the early 1960s, when seven were transferred through lease or sale to several foreign navies. Two were transferred to other federal agencies; two were reactivated in the late 1960s and these served into the 1970s. Some of those transferred abroad were still active as late as 2007; none were lost in action.

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