USS Monadnock (ACM-14)
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| Career |
|
| Name: |
USAMP Major Samuel Ringgold (MP 11) for U.S. Army, ACM-14, Monadnock |
| Builder: |
Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, West Virginia for U.S. Army |
| Acquired: |
by the US Navy, March 1951 |
| Renamed: |
Monadnock, 1 May 1955 |
| Reclassified: |
MMA-14, 7 February 1955 |
| Struck: |
1 July 1960 |
| Fate: |
Struck - Sold commercial |
| General characteristics |
| Class and type: |
ACM-11 class minelayer |
| Displacement: |
910 long tons (925 t) light |
| Length: |
189 ft (58 m) |
| Beam: |
37 ft (11 m) |
| Draft: |
12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Speed: |
12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement: |
125 |
Monadnock (ACM-14) was originally built as an M1 mine planter[1] for the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, Mine Planter Service as USAMP Major Samuel Ringgold (MP 11)[2] by the Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, WV and delivered to the Army December 1942[3]. The ship was named for Samuel Ringgold (1796 – 1846), an officer noted as the "Father of Modern Artillery" that fell in the Mexican-American War.
The mine planter was transferred to the U.S. Navy in March 1951 to become an Auxiliary Minelayer (ACM / MMA) under naval designation. She was then berthed at Boston as a unit of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. While in the Reserve Fleet, she was redesignated MMA-14, 7 February 1955, and named Monadnock, 1 May 1955; the second ACM to bear this name.[4] The ship was never commissioned and thus never bore the "USS" prefix. Monadnock was struck from the Navy list on 1 July 1960 and sold to commercial interests. In commercial service the ship was named Thiti, Amazonia and eventually Dear operating into the 1980s under Italian registry.[2]
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