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Keokuk (AKN 4)
ex-CM-8
ex-AN-5
ex-CMc-6
CMc-6 call sign:
Nan - Uncle - Fox - Uncle
Keokuk Class Minelayer: Laid down in 1914 as the SS Henry M. Flagler by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, PA.; Renamed Columbia Heights in 1940; Acquired by the Navy, 28 July 1941 for conversion to a Coastal Minelayer, CMc-6; Reclassified as a Net Layer, AN-5 and named Keokuk 15 August 1941; Commissioned, USS Keokuk (AN-5), 28 February 1942; Reclassified as a Minelayer, CM-8, 18 May 1942; Reclassified as a Net Cargo Ship, AKN-4 in November 1943; Decommissioned 5 December 1945 at San Francisco, CA; Transferred to the War Shipping Administration, 1 July 1946 for disposal; Sold 7 March 1947 to the West India Fruit & Steam Ship Co. of Florida. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 6,150 t.; Length 353'; Beam 57'; Draft 17'; Speed 12 kts.; Complement 278; Armament three 3"/50 dual purpose mounts, two twin 40mm, four .50 cal. machine guns, and two .30 cal. machine guns; Propulsion four Scotch single ended cylindrical boilers, two 2,700shp Cramp vertical triple expansion engines, two shafts.
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