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Miantonomah (CM 10)
ex-CMc-5



Call sign:
November - Charlie - Delta - Uniform

Sunk 25 July 1944
Monadnock Class Coastal Minelayer/Monadnock Class Minelayer: Laid down in 1938 as SS Quaker by the Pusey and Jones Corp, Wilmington, Del.; Acquired by the Navy 5 May 1941; Designated as a Coastal Minelayer, CMc-5 and renamed Miantonomah, 14 May 1941; Commissioned USS Miantonomah (CMc-5), 13 November 1941; Reclassified as a Minelayer, CM-10, 15 May 1942; Struck a mine and sank, 25 July 1944 at LaHavre, France; Struck from the Naval Register, 13 November 1944.

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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Miantonomah 79k 10 October 1942
U.S. Navy photo from the June 2004 edition of Naval History magazine		 Joe Radigan
Miantonomah 34k c. 1943
U.S. Navy Photo		 Joe Radigan
Miantonomah 141k c. April 1944
U.S. Navy photo from the June 2004 edition of Naval History magazine 		Joe Radigan
Miantonomah 81k 29 April 1944
U.S. Navy photo		 U.S. Navy in WWII Web Site
Miantonomah 68k c. 1944
U.S. Navy photo from the Naval Institute Archives		 Joe Radigan
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