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USS Chimo (ACM 1)

Call sign:
Nan - Peter - Xray - Fox

ex-USAMP Colonel Charles W. Bundy

Chimo served both the U.S. Army and Navy

Chimo Class Auxiliary Minelayer: Laid down in 1943 for the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, Mine Planter Service as Colonel Charles W. Bundy by the Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, WV; Acquired by the Navy, 7 April 1944 and commissioned USS Chimo (ACM 1) the same day; Converted to an Auxiliary Minelayer at the Norfolk Navy Yard; Decommissioned, 21 May 1946; Transferred to the War Shipping Administration and sold 28 September 1948; Sold in 1963 to Otha "Bill" Martin of San Diego, CA, converted to a tuna seiner and renamed MV Day Island. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,300 t.; Length 188' 2"; Beam 37'; Draft 12' 6"; Speed 12.5 kts.; Complement 69; Armament one single 40mm gun mount, four 20mm mounts; Propulsion two Combustion Engineering header type boilers, two 1,200shp Skinner Unaflow reciprocating engines, two shafts.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
	47k	-		Charles Gross
	56k	In drydock at Sasebo, Japan		Charles Gross

View the Chimo (ACM 1)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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