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Puritan (ACM / MMA 16)



Puritan served both the US Army and Navy

Camanche Class Auxiliary Minelayer: Laid down, 1943 for the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, Mine Planter Service as the Mineplanter Colonel Alfred A. Maybach at Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, WV; Launched, (date unknown); Transferred to the Navy, 7 March 1951 and placed out of commission in reserve as ACM-16 and berthed at the San Francisco Group Pacific Reserve Fleet; Moved to Green Cove Springs, FL; Reclassified, 7 February 1955 as an Auxiliary Minelayer MMA-16; Named Puritan, 1 May 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1959. Fate unknown. Puritan was never commissioned in the U. S. Navy.

Specifications: Displacement 910 t.; Length 189'; Beam 37'; Draft 12'; Speed 12 kts; Complement 135; Armament unknown; Propulsion unknown.
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Maybach 42k Seen here as the Colonel Alfred A. Maybach U. S. Army

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