| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Camanche |
| Launched: | 1942 as USAMP Brigadier General Royal T. Frank for the US Army |
| Acquired: | by the US Navy 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | Never commissioned |
| Reclassified: | ACM-11; reclassified MMA-11, 7 February 1955; Renamed Camanche 1 May 1955 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Atlantic Reserve Fleet |
| Status: | Sold in 1948. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | ACM-11 class minelayer |
| Displacement: | 1,300 long tons (1,321 t) full |
| Length: | 189 ft (58 m) |
| Beam: | 37 ft (11 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | Two Combustion Engineering header type boilers, two 1,200shp Skinner Unaflow reciprocating engines, no reduction gear, two shafts. |
| Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Camanche (ACM-11/MMA-11) was an auxiliary minelayer in the United States Navy.
Camanche (ACM-11) was the second ship bearing the name and was the lead ship of the Camanche-class minelayers. The ship was laid down 1942 by Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, West Virginia for the U.S. Army Mine Planter Service as USAMP Brigadier General Royal T. Frank MP-12. The Navy acquired the ship in 1944. First classified as ACM-11 then reclassified MMA-11 on 7 February 1955 the ship was renamed Camanche on 1 May 1955.[1]
Camanche was never commissioned and thus never bore the "USS" prefix.[2]
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
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