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Terror (MMF 5)
ex-MM-5
ex-CM-5



Call sign:
November - Echo - Foxtrot - Victor
Terror Class Minelayer: Laid down, 3 September 1940 at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA; Launched, 6 June 1941; Commissioned USS Terror
(CM-5), 15 July 1942; Decommissioned in July 1947 at Charleston, SC; Placed in service, in reserve, during the Korean War; Redesignated as a Fleet Minelayer, MM-5, 7 February 1955; Designation for Fleet Minelayer changed to MMF-5 in October 1955; Decommissioned 6 August 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 November 1970; Sold for scrap in November 1971 to the Union Minerals and Alloys Corp. of New York, NY.

Specifications: Displacement 5,875 t.; Length 454' 10"; Beam 60' 2'; Draft 19' 7"; Speed 20.3 kts; Compliment 481; Armament four 5"/38 duel purpose gun mounts, 16 - 1.1" mounts (later replaced by four quad 40mm gun mounts and fourteen 20mm guns); Propulsion two sets of General Electric double-reduction geared steam turbines, 11,000 shp, two shafts.

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Terror 69k U.S. Navy photo 80-G-411681 DANFS
Terror 114k Loading Mk VI mines at Yorktown, VA.
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Photo		 Joe Radigan
Terror 63k - USS Terror Web Site
Terror 40k - Robert Hirst
Terror 90k The imposing Terror, in the Deleware River on 24 August 1942, carries a Mk 4 radar atop the director for the Mk 37 fire-control system but no search radars; a crow's nest surmounts the foremast.
U.S. Navy photo		 Joe Radigan
Terror 80k c. 1943.
U.S. Navy photo		 Joe Radigan
Terror 59k Seen at San Francisco on 9 August 1945 after her Mare Island refit, the Terror displays her final wartime configuration. Two additional quadruple 40-mm antiaircraft mounts joined the four already aboard, and the twin 40-mm mount just forward of the bridge was retained. Two single Army-pattern 40-mm guns were removed, the en single 20-mm guns were exchanged for eight twin mountings, and antiaircraft firecontrol was augmented through the addition of two Mk 29 radar-equipped
Mk 57 directors.
U.S. Navy photo		 Joe Radigan
Terror 135k 4 November 1945
Sasebo Japan
Flagship ComMinePac 		USS Terror Web Site
Terror 515k c. 1945
Pearl Harbor		 USS Terror Web Site
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