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Quinnenbaug (ID 1687)
Mine Planter: Built in 1899 as Jefferson by the Delaware River Iron and Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, Chester, PA; Acquired by the Navy 3 December 1917; Converted to a Minelayer by Robbin's Repair Basin and DryDock Co., Brooklyn, NY; Commissioned Quinnebaug (ID 1687) 28 March 1918 at Brooklyn; Decommissioned 6 February 1919 at Philadelphia, PA; Returned to her owner, the Old Dominion Steamship Co. 19 March 1919; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 5,150 t.; Length 375'; Beam 42'; Draft 18' 6"; Speed 17 kts.; Complement 345; Armament one 5", two 3" and two machine guns.
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SS Jefferson photographed prior to World War I. U. S. Navy Photo NH 42456 |
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Painted in "dazzle" camouflage, 1918. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969. U. S. Navy Photo NH 67875 |
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U.S. Navy minelayers steaming in column in the North Sea, September 1918. At left, British destroyers are covering the formation's flank with a smoke screen. Ships in the minelayer column are (from front to rear): Roanoke, Housatonic, Quinnebaug and Baltimore U. S. Navy Photo NH 2805 |
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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
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Photographed circa early 1919 by O.W. Waterman, Hampton, Virginia. U. S. Navy Photo NH 98371 |
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Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships History: [The third] Quinnebaug (SP-1687), formerly Jefferson, was built in 1899 by Delaware River Iron and Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, Chester, Pa., for the Old Dominion
Steamship Co.Chartered by the Navy 3 December 1917, converted to a mine planter by Robbin's Repair Basin and DryDock Co., Brooklyn, N.Y., and commissioned at Brooklyn 28 March 1918, Comdr. David Pratt Mannix in command.
Quinnebaug reported to the Atlantic Mine Force and was ordered 13 May 1918 to Invergordon, Scotland for mining operations in the North Sea with Mine Squadron 1. From 14 July to 26 October, she successfully completed ten mining missions screened by British destroyers of the 14th Flotilla (Grand Fleet). Quinnebaug was not diverted from her mission by two encounters with German submarines 20-21 September and succeeded in planting approximately 6,040 mines in the Northern Barrage. Upon completion of this duty she returned home, decommissioned at Philadelphia 6 February 1919, and was returned to her owner 19 March 1919.
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