USS Inaugural (AM-242)

USS Inaugural (AM-242)

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. Inaugural was ripped from her mooring and grounded a mile downstream in the flood of 1993. As of March 2011, the hulk was still sitting on the Missouri side of the river.