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CM / MM / MMF-5 Terror



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; Placed in service, in reserve, c. 1950; Redesignated Fleet Minelayer MM-5, 7 February 1966; Designation changed to MMF-5, October 1966; Decommissioned, 6 August 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold for scrap, 1971 to 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 General Electric geared 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 80k c. 1943.
US Navy Photo
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Terror 135k Sasebo Japan, 4 Nov. 1945
Flagship, ComMinePac
USS Terror Web Site
Terror 63k - USS Terror Web Site
Terror 515k Pearl Harbor, 1945 USS Terror Web Site

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