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USAJMP Capt. Fred L. Perry


Junior Mine Planter:
  • Built in 1919 at Rocky River Drydock Co., Rocky River, OH.
  • Launched in 1919
  • Accepted for service by the Quartermaster Corps in 1919.
  • Named in honor of Capt. Fred L. Perry.
  • Assigned to the US Army Coast Artillery Corp Mine Planter Service
  • Placed in commission, date unknown
  • Stationed at Governor’s Island, N.Y., and assigned to the Coast Defenses of Southern New York.
  • Transferred to Fort Hancock, N.J., in 1929 and assigned to the Harbor Defenses of Sandy Hook.
  • Transferred to the Army Supply Base, Brooklyn, NY, in 1934
  • Functioned in the Harbor Boat Service as a freight and passenger craft 1919-34 in New York Harbor
  • Placed out of commission in 1934
  • Sold, 14 December 1934, to Reinauer Yacht Corp.
  • Re-sold in 1943 to Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp., converted to a barge, renamed Consort
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1947
    Specifications:
    Displacement 177 t.
    Length 101'
    Beam 22'
    Draft 12'
    Speed unknown
    Armament unknown
    Complement unknown
    Cruise Radius unknown
    Fuel Capacities unknown
    Propulsion unknown
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    Capt Fred L Perry 58k USAJMP Capt. Fred L. Perry moored pierside at Rocky River Dry Dock Co., Rocky River, OH. date unknown. Bowling Green State University, Historical Collection of the Great Lakes

    The history for USAJMP Capt. Fred L. Perry is from US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol. 2
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