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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

BG HENRY L. ABBOTT coastal minelayers of US Army (1942-1943/1944-1951)

Camanche 1955

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm by Army // comm by Navy Fate
(ex-MP6) BG Henry L. Abbott 479 Marietta, Point Pleasant 1942 1942 1942 // --- never commissioned by Navy, sunk 1975
ACM1 (ex-MP15) Chimo (ex-Col. Charles W. Bundy) 488 Marietta, Point Pleasant 1943 1943 1943 // 4.1944 to War Shipping Adm. 9.1948
ACM2 (ex-MP16) Planter (ex-Col. George Ricker) 489 Marietta, Point Pleasant 4.1941 1942 1942 // 4.1944 stricken 12.1947
ACM3 (ex-MP8) Barricade (ex-Col. John Storey) 481 Marietta, Point Pleasant 10.1941 11.1942 1942 // 4.1944 Coast Guard buoy tender WAGL328 Magnolia 6.1946
ACM5 (ex-MP3) Barbican (ex-Col. George Armistead) 476 Marietta, Point Pleasant 1941 1942 1942 // 3.1945 Coast Guard buoy tender WAGL329 Ivy 6.1946
ACM6 (ex-MP2) Bastion (ex-Col. Henry J. Hunt) 475 Marietta, Point Pleasant 1941 1942 1942 // 4.1945 Coast Guard buoy tender WAGL330 Jonquil 6.1946
ACM7 (ex-MP5) Obstructor (ex-1st Lt. William G. Sylvester) 478 Marietta, Point Pleasant 1941 1942 1942 // 4.1945 Coast Guard buoy tender WAGL331 Heather 6.1946
ACM8 (ex-MP1) Picket (ex-Gen. Henry Knox) 474 Marietta, Point Pleasant 1941 1942 1942 // 3.1945 Coast Guard buoy tender WAGL332 Willow 6.1946
ACM9 (ex-MP9) Trapper (ex-MG Arthur Murray) 482 Marietta, Point Pleasant 1943 1943 1944 // 3.1945 Coast Guard cable repair ship WARC333 Yamacraw 6.1946
ACM11 (ex-MP12), 2.1955- MMA11 5.1955- Camanche (ex-BG Royal T. Frank) 485 Marietta, Point Pleasant 1941 1942 11.1942 // 1950 stricken ~1960
ACM12 (ex-MP10), 2.1955- MMA12 5.1955- Canonicus (ex-MG Erasmus Weaver) 483 Marietta, Point Pleasant 1941 1942 1942 // 1950 stricken ~1960
ACM13 (ex-MP14), 2.1955- MMA13 5.1955- Miantonomah (ex-Col. Horace F. Spurgin) 487 Marietta, Point Pleasant 1943 1943 1943 // 1.1950 stricken 7.1960
ACM14 (ex-MP11), 2.1955- MMA14 5.1955- Monadnock (ex-Maj. Samuel Ringgold) 484 Marietta, Point Pleasant 1941 1942 1942 // (3/1951) never commissioned by Navy, stricken 7.1960
ACM15 (ex-MP7), 2.1955- MMA15 5.1955- Nausett (ex-MG Wallace F. Randolph) 480 Marietta, Point Pleasant 1941 1942 1942 // (3/1951) never commissioned by Navy, stricken 7.1960
ACM16 (ex-MP13), 2.1955- MMA16 5.1955- Puritan (ex-Col. Alfred A. Maybach) 486 Marietta, Point Pleasant 1943 1943 1943 // (3/1951) never commissioned by Navy, stricken 1959
(ex-MP14) Gen. Samuel L. Mills 477 Marietta, Point Pleasant 1941 1942 1942 never commissioned by Navy

 

Displacement standard, t

880

Displacement full, t

1320

Length, m

57.4

Breadth, m

11.3

Draught, m

3.81

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Skinner Uniflow QEV, 2 Combustion Engineering boilers

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

12.5

Fuel, t

 
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

ACM1-3, 5-9: 1 x 1 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, mines

ACM11-16: mines

Electronic equipment SC or SO radar

Complement

ACM1-3, 5-9: 69

ACM11-16: 135

Project history: These small coastal minelayers were transferred to Navy by US Army.

Modernizations: None

1/1946: 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, mines, SC or SO radar

Naval service: No significant events.

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