Monadnock (ACM-14)

Monadnock (ACM-14) was originally built as an M1 mine planter[1] for the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, Mine Planter Service as USAMP Major Samuel Ringgold (MP 11)[2] by the Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, WV and delivered to the Army December 1942.[3] The ship was the second mine planter named for Samuel Ringgold (1796–1846), an officer noted as the "Father of Modern Artillery" who fell in the Mexican–American War.

For other ships with the same name, see USS Monadnock (ACM-10).

History
Name: USAMP Major Samuel Ringgold (MP 11) for U.S. Army, ACM-14, Monadnock
Builder: Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, West Virginia for U.S. Army
Acquired: by the US Navy, March 1951
Renamed: Monadnock, 1 May 1955
Reclassified: MMA-14, 7 February 1955
Stricken: 1 July 1960
Identification: IMO number: 8522494
Fate: Struck – Sold commercial
General characteristics
Class and type: ACM-11 class minelayer
Displacement: 910 long tons (925 t) light
Length: 189 ft (58 m)
Beam: 37 ft (11 m)
Draft: 12 ft (3.7 m)
Speed: 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement: 125

The mine planter was transferred to the U.S. Navy in March 1951 to become an Auxiliary Minelayer (ACM / MMA) under naval designation. She was then berthed at Boston as a unit of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. While in the Reserve Fleet, she was redesignated MMA-14, 7 February 1955, and named Monadnock, 1 May 1955; the second ACM to bear this name.[4] The ship was never commissioned and thus never bore the "USS" prefix. Monadnock was struck from the Navy list on 1 July 1960 and sold to commercial interests. In commercial service the ship was named Thiti, Amazonia and eventually Dear operating into the 1980s under Italian registry.[2]

References
  1. "Coast Artillery Corps Army Mine Planter Service". Army Ships – The Ghost Fleet. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  2. "Monadnock (MMA 14) ex-ACM-14 ex-USAMP Major Samuel Ringgold (MP 11)". NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive. NavSource. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  3. "Shipbuilding History – U.S. Army Mine Craft – MP, L and M". Archived from the original on 23 June 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  4. "Monadnock (ACM 14) (see after Monadnock (ACM 10))". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History & Heritage Command. Retrieved 12 November 2011.


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