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CM-12 Weehawken



Call sign:
November - Charlie - Juliet - Golf



Salem Class Minelayer: Laid down, 1920 as the Car Ferry SS Estrada Palma by the William Cramp and Sons Shipbuilding Co., Philadelphia, PA; Aquired by the Navy, 15 June 1942; Named and classified Weehawken (CM 12), 18 July 1942; Converted to a Minelayer; Commissioned USS Weehawken (CM-12), 30 September 1942; Damaged beyond repair by Typhoon Louise, 9 - 12 October 1945; Decommissioned, 11 December 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, 3 January 1946 and destroyed.

Specifications: Displacement 6,525 t.; Length 350'; Beam 57'; Draft 17' 6"; Speed 12 kts; Complement 290; Armament three 3"/50s, four 20mm; Propulsion two Cramp vertical triple-expansion boilers, 2,700shp, two shafts..
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Weehawken 161k c. 1943
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