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Miantonomah (CM 10)
ex-CMc-5



Call sign:
Nan - Charlie - Dog - Uncle

Sunk 25 September 1944
Monadnock Class Coastal Minelayer/Monadnock Class Minelayer:

  • Laid down in 1938 as SS Quaker by Pusey and Jones Corp, Wilmington, Delaware
  • 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 September 1944 at LaHavre, France
  • Struck from the Navy list 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"/50 dual purpose mounts, two twin 40mm mounts, 10 20mm mounts and two depth charge racks
  • Propulsion: Two Babcock and Wilcox superheating steam boilers, one 4,000shp General Electric geared turbine, one shaft.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    USS Miantonomah (CMc-5)
    Miantonomah 92k Near the Boston Navy Yard on 27 December 1941 four days before completing conversion. Her appearance is almost identical to that of her sister Monadnock [CMc 4]
    National Archives photo 19-N-26600    		 Robert Hurst
    Miantonomah 79k 10 October 1942
    U.S. Navy photo from the June 2004 edition of Naval History magazine    		 Joe Radigan
    USS Miantonomah (CM 10)
    Miantonomah 106k Near the Norfolk Navy Yard on 10 October 1942 after a refit that produced only minor changers to her appearance
    National Archives photos 19-N-35889 and 19-N-35891    		 Robert Hurst
    Miantonomah 127k
    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
    Miantonomah 81k 29 April 1944
    U.S. Navy photo    		 U.S. Navy in WWII Web Site
    Miantonomah 68k Miantonomah near the Norfolk Navy Yard on 29 April 1944 after a major reconfiguration of her mine laying facilities. Note the conspicuous, low-hanging sponsons for the two new mine rails aft
    National Archives photo 19-N-67250    		 Joe Radigan
    Miantonomah 136k Near the Norfolk Navy Yard on 29 April 1944 after a major reconfiguration of her minelaying facilities. two new mine rails with large chutes in sponsons have been added outboard of the original two rails, whose chutes have been reconfigured and lowered. Other modifications include the provision of a lattice radar mast just forward of the stack
    National Archives photo 19-N-67252    		 Robert Hurst
    Commanding Officers
    01LCDR Raymond Dorsey Edwards, USN - Retired as Rear Admiral13 November 1941
    02LCDR Frederic Brice Goldsborough, USN1942
    03CDR Austin Edward Rowe, USN9 September 1943 - 25 September 1944
    Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and Joe Radigan
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    DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Website
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Naval Minewarfare Association
    Association of Minemen
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