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Aroostook (ID 1256)
CM-3
AK-44


Aroostook Class Minelayer: Laid down at William Cramp and Sons Shipyard, Philadelphia, PA as the passenger steamer SS Bunker Hill; Launched, 26 March 1907; Acquired by the Navy, 12 November 1917; Renamed USS Aroostook (ID-1256), 15 November 1917; Commissioned, 7 December 1917 as USS Aroostook at Boston Navy Yard; Converted to a "Mine Planter", 1918; Designated CM-3, 17 February 1920; Decommissioned, 10 March 1931 at Puget Sound Navy Yard; Redesignated a Cargo Ship AK-44, 20 May 1941; Struck from the Naval Register, 5 February 1943; Turned over the Maritime Commission and laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA under her former name Bunker Hill; Sold in 1947 to the Seven Seas Trading Company, Hollywood, CA, converted to a floating casino and renamed Lux; Sold for scrapping in October 1947.

Specifications: Displacement 3,800 t.; Length 395'; Beam 52' 2'; Draft 16'; Speed 20 kts; Complement 313; Armament one 5"/51, two 3"/50s, two .30 cal. Colt machine guns.


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Aroostook 73k US Navy photo 19-N-4351 Hazegray & Underway Web Site
Quinnebaug 71k U.S. Navy minelayers proceeding to sea in two columns, in Area Number 2 of the North Sea, September 1918. Ships in the column at left are (from front to rear): Roanoke, Housatonic, Quinnebaug and Baltimore. Ships in column at right are (from front to rear): Canonicus (out of picture, to right), Canandaigua, Aroostook and Saranac. Note disruptive "dazzle" camouflage worn by these ships.
Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S.
National Archives.
U. S. Army Signal Corps Photo 111-SC-43563
Naval Historical Center
Aroostook 92k Underway late 1920s with a Martin SC plane on her after deck. Note the 3" gun at the bow, and paravanes atop the deckhouse, amidships between her stacks
US Navy photo NH 94166
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Aroostook 67k USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) moored at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, in October 1924. USS Aroostook (CM-3) is tied up to the Air Station pier in the upper right, with a storeship (Arctic, Boreas or Yukon) moored in the channel nearby.
Donation of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, USN (Retired), 1972.
US Navy photo NH 80473
Naval Historical Center

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Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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