The USS Nahant (YN-102/AN-83) was a net laying and salvage vessel constructed during the final months of World War II. Laid down on 31 March 1945 by the Commercial Iron Works in Portland, Oregon, she was launched on 30 June 1945 and commissioned on 24 August 1945. Although she was too late to see action in the war, her early service involved removing net moorings and testing experimental nets in the San Francisco Bay area until 31 October 1945. Subsequently, she traveled to Orange, Texas, arriving on 21 November, where she performed duties such as planting moorings, removing pilings, and providing tug services for the Reserve Fleet. The vessel was decommissioned on 31 July 1946, entering the mothball fleet shortly thereafter. Recommissioned on 14 February 1952, Nahant was assigned to the 5th Naval District, where she installed and maintained harbor defense nets. Her role expanded in 1954 to include salvage operations, and by May of that year, she was equipped with diving gear and a decompression chamber, enabling her to serve as both a salvage ship and a net tender. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Nahant engaged in a variety of missions, including mine hunting, harbor clearance, NATO and Atlantic Fleet training, torpedo net operations, experimental mine and net testing, and fleet exercises. Her operations took her from Norfolk-based ports at Little Creek, Virginia, to Charleston, South Carolina, and as far north as Naval Station Argentia and south to Cuba. USS Nahant was decommissioned permanently on 30 September 1968 and struck from the Naval Register the following day. She was sold to Uruguay on 15 October 1968 and renamed ROU Huracan (BT-30). Serving in the Uruguayan Navy as an auxiliary vessel until her decommissioning on 25 January 1993, she was later acquired by a fishing club and converted into a barge on the Uruguay River. As of October 2020, she remains afloat as a floating workshop and office in Nueva Palmira, exemplifying her long maritime service and adaptability.

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