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Terror (CM / MM / MMF 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, July 1947 at Charleston, SC; Placed in service, in reserve, c. 1950; Redesignated as a Fleet Minelayer MM-5, 7 February 1955; Designation changed to MMF-5, October 1955; Decommissioned, 6 August 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 November 1970; Sold for scrap in November 1971 to the Union Minerals and Alloys Corp., New York, NY. Terror received four battle stars for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 5,875 t.; Length 454' 10"; Beam 60' 2'; Draft 19' 7"; Speed 20.3 kts; Compliment 481; Armament four single 5"/38 Duel Purpose gun mounts, 16 1.1" (later replaced by four quad 40mm gun mounts, 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 - Hyperwar US Navy in World War II
Terror 114k Loading Mk VI mines at Yorktown, VA.
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Photo
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Terror 63k - USS Terror Web Site
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.
US Navy Photo
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Terror 80k c. 1943.
US Navy Photo
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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.
US Navy Photo
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Terror 135k Sasebo Japan, 4 Nov. 1945
Flagship, ComMinePac
USS Terror Web Site
Terror 515k Pearl Harbor, 1945 USS Terror Web Site

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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USS Terror (CM-5)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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