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USAMP Gen. William M. Graham

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Defense Service Medal
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - World War I Victory Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Mine Planter:
  • Laid down in 1916-17 for the U.S. Army Quartermaster Department at New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J.
  • Launched, 29 August 1917
  • Accepted for service by the Quartermaster Corps, 3 January 1918
  • Commissioned USAMP Gen. William M. Graham, assigned to the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, Mine Planter Service, Panama Coast Artillery District
  • Named for Gen. William M. Graham, who served as a general officer in the United States Army in both the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War
  • USAMP Gen. William M. Graham, was the first US Army vessel designed to be a combined mine planter and cable ship
  • Stationed at Fort Sherman, Canal Zone, as of January 1919
  • Further assigned to the Coast Defenses of Cristobal, 9 November 1920, typically docked at the mine wharf at Fort Sherman
  • Personnel assigned to General William M Graham were concurrently assigned to Headquarters Battery, 1st Coast Artillery, 30 June 1924
  • Personnel relieved from Headquarters Battery, 1st Coast Artillery about August 1926
  • Awarded “E” for mine planting efficiency in 1937
  • In coordination with the USAMP Lt. Col. Ellery W. Niles, in June-August 1940 USAMP Gen. William M. Graham installed the wartime minefields that protected the Panama Canal Zone
  • Decommissioned and sold to Panama in 1945, renamed SS Panama City
  • Dropped off the list of US Merchant Vessels after 1949
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1948
    Specifications:
    Displacement 611 t. gross
    Length 170'
    Beam 32'
    Draft 17'
    Speed unknown
    Armament unknown
    Complement
    Propulsion
    two reciprocating steam engines
    two shafts, 800shp
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    General William M Graham
    30110503    		 19k
    Namesake
    William Montrose Graham - (September 28, 1834 – January 16, 1916) was a career soldier in the United States Army, reaching the rank of major general. He was a veteran of both the American Civil War and the Spanish–American War.
    U.S. National Archives and Record Administration photo     		Tommy Trampp
    General William M Graham
    30110502    		 209k USAMP Gen. William M. Graham moored at a pier in the Panama Canal Zone in 1939.
    Photo be Thomas McAvoy, Life Magazine. Used for educational and non-commercial purpose.     		John Chiquoine
    General William M Graham 34k USAMP Gen. William M. Graham under way, date and location unknown US National Archives photo, a US Army Signal Corps photo
    The history for USAMP Gen. William M. Graham is from US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol. 2
    Commanding Officers
    01Capt. William R. Deeble, USA1 May 1919 - January 1920
    02Maj. Edwin B. Spiller, USA 25 January 1920 – 6 September 1920
    031st Lt. Evans R. Crowell, USA 6 September 1920 – 8 April 1921
    04Capt. William D. Evans, USA 8 April 1921 – 22 October 1922
    05Capt. Frederic W. Cook, USA 27 October 1922 – 30 June 1924
    061st Lt. Joseph Harris, USA 30 June 1924 – 12 September 1924
    07Capt. LeRoy H. Lohmann, USA 12 September 1924 – 24 May 1927
    081st Lt. David B. Latimer, USA 24 May 1927 – 11 July 1927
    091st Lt. Charles F. Wilson, USA 12 July 1927 – 29 May 1929
    10Lt. Raymond M. Arthur, USA 30 May 1929 – 28 April 1930
    112d Lt. John J. Holst, USA 28 April 1930 – 15 August 1930
    12Capt. Willis L. Claxton, USA 15 August 1930 – 25 July 1932
    13Capt. Harry E. Pendleton, USA 25 July 1932 – 4 August 1934
    141st Lt. Virgil Kimm, USA 4 August 1934 – 11 July 1936
    151st Lt. Ira W. Cory, USA 11 July 1936 – 21 August 1936
    16Capt. George A. Ford, USA 21 August 1936 – 9 June 1938
    17Capt. Gerald G. Gibbs, USA 10 June 1938 – 19 September 1939
    18Capt. John J. Holst, USA 20 September 1939 – 16 September 1941
    US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol. 2
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    United States Harbor Defenses - USCG Cable Ship Pequot - Sister Ships - Mills, Frank, Schofield, and Graham
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