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Monadnock (ACM 10)
ex-CM-9
ex-CMc-4
Call sign:
November - Charlie - Alpha - Victor
Monadnock Class Minelayer: Laid down in 1938 as Cavalier by the Pusey and Jones Corp., Wilmington, DE ; Acquired by the Navy 5 May 1941 and converted to a Coastal Minelayer by the Bethlehem Steel Co., Atlantic Works, East Boston, MA; Renamed Monadnock 14 May 1941; Commissioned USS Monadnock (CMc-4), 2 December 1941; Reclassified as a Minelayer, CM-9, 1 May 1942; Reclassified as an Auxiliary Minelayer, ACM-10, 10 July 1945 at San Francisco, CA; Decommissioned 3 June 1946 at San Francisco; Struck from the Naval Register, 3 July 1946; Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 27 July 1946; Sold into mercantile service to a Panamanian company in 1949 and renamed Karukara; Sold in 1952 to Naviera Aznar S. A., Bilboa, Spain and renamed Monte de la Esperanza and operated for more than 20 years transporting bananas from the Canary Islands to the United Kingdom; Sold to the Marine Institute of Spain and renamed Esperanza del Mar. She was equipped as a hospital ship operating out of the Canary Islands to help fishing ships in the area for more than 10 years; Sunk as an artificial reef in 2000 off the coast of Spain.
Specifications: Displacement 3,110 t.; Length 292'; Beam 48' 6'; Draft 19' 8"; Speed 17.5 kts; Complement 201; Armament two 3"/50s, two twin 40mm, 10 single 20mm and two depth charge racks; Propulsion two Babcock and Wilcox superheating steam boilers, single 4,000shp General Electric geared turbines, 4,000shp, one shaft.
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SS Cavalier
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At her builder's on 2 May 1938
U.S. Navy photo from the June 2004 edition of Naval History magazine. |
Joe Radigan |
USS Monadnock (CM 9)
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c. 1942 |
Gunter Krebs |
USS Monadnock (ACM 10)
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c. 1945
Sasebo, Japan. |
Chuck Schoen |
Monte de la Esperanza
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Alberto García |
View the Monadnock (ACM 10)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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