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CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

auxiliary minelayers of WWII

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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