USS Inaugural (AM-242) was an
Admirable-class fleet
minesweeper. The
Admirable class was the largest and one of the most successful classes of U.S. minesweepers ordered during World War II.
Inaugural was launched on 1 October 1944, and was commissioned on 30 December, with
Lieutenant John H. Pace USNR in command.
The ship was decommissioned in 1946 and set up as a
museum ship in
St. Louis, Missouri in 1968. In the flood of 1993,
Inaugural was ripped from her mooring and grounded a mile downstream.
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