more than 1000 t of displacement
No | Name | Launched // Comm. | Builder | Displacement, t | Dimensions, m | Speed, kts | Machinery, power, hp | Armament | Fate |
CM8 (ex-AN5) | Keokuk (ex-Columbia Heights) | 1914 // 5.1942 | Cramp, Philadelphia | 6150 | 107.6x17.4x5.2 | 12 | 2VTE, 4boilers, 2700 | 3x1-76/50, 2x2-40, mines | net cargo ship AKN4 11.1943 |
CM11 | Salem (ex-Joseph R. Parrott), 8.1945- Shawmut | 1916 // 8.1942 | Cramp, Philadelphia | 5300 | 106.7x17.4x4.6 | 12 | 2VTE, 2700 | 3x1-76/50, 19-20, mines | stricken 1.1946 |
CM12 | Weehawken (ex-Estrada Palma) | 1920 // 9.1942 | Cramp, Philadelphia | 6525 | 106.7x17.4x5.2 | 12 | 2VTE, 2700 | 3x1-76/50, 4-20, mines | wrecked 9.10.1945, never repaired |
CMc3 | Wassuc (ex-Yale) | 1924 // 5.1941 | New Jersey Drydock, Elizabethport | 1830 | 70.3x12.8x3.1 | 13 | 2VTE, 2boilers, 2000 | 2x1-76/50, mines | stricken 11.1945 |
CMc4, 5.1942- CM9, 7.1945- ACM10 | Monadnock (ex-Cavalier) | 1938 // 12.1941 | Pusey & Jones, Wilmington | 3110 | 89.0x14.9x5.0 | 17.5 | 1geared turbine, 2boilers, 4000 | 2x1-76/50, 2x2-40, 10x1-20, 2 DCR, mines | stricken 7.1946 |
CMc5, 5.1942- CM10 | Miantonomah (ex-Quaker) | 1938 // 11.1941 | Pusey & Jones, Wilmington | 3110 | 89.0x14.8x5.0 | 17.5 | 1geared turbine, 2boilers, 4000 | 2x1-76/50, 2x2-40, 10x1-20, 2 DCR, mines | sunk 25.7.1944 |
Project history: Former civilian vessels, converted to minelayers (CM), coastal minelayers (CMc) and auxiliary minelayers (ACM).
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Miantonomah was mined at Le Havre 25.7.1944. Weehawken ran aground 9.10.1945 at Okinawa during typhoon and never repaired.
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Miantonomah
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