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Miantonomah (MMA 13)
ex-ACM-13
ex-USAMP Col. Horace F. Spurgin (MP 14)



Miantonomah served both the US Army and Navy
Camanche Class Auxiliary Minelayer: Laid down as Col. Horace F. Spurgin (MP 14) for the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, Mine Planter Service by the Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, WV; Delivered in 1942; Transferred to the Navy and commissioned ACM-13, 25 January 1950; Reclassified, 7 February 1955 as an Auxiliary Minelayer, MMA-13; Named Miantonomah 6 May 1955; Decommissioned, 10 July 1955 at Terminal Island, Long Beach, CA and placed in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at Long Beach; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960; Sold for scrap 17 February 1961 to Herbert P. Sturdivant and Edward Madruga of San Diego, CA.

Specifications: Displacement 910 t.; Length 18' 9"; Beam 37'; Draft 12'; Speed 12 kts; Complement 135; Armament none.

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Miantonomah 262k Seen here as Col. Horace F. Spurgin (MP 14)
US Navy photo from the March 1950 edition of All Hands magazine.		 Joe Radigan
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