USS Monadnock (CMc-4)
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| Name: | USS Monadnock |
| Builder: | Pusey and Jones Corp., Wilmington, Delaware |
| Laid down: | 1938, as SS Cavalier |
| Acquired: | by purchase, 9 June 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 2 December 1941, as USS Monadnock (CMc-4) |
| Decommissioned: | 3 June 1946 |
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| Struck: | July 1946 |
| Honours and awards: |
3 battle stars |
| Fate: | Sunk off the coast of Spain, 2000 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3,110 long tons (3,160 t) |
| Length: | 292 ft (89 m) |
| Beam: | 48 ft 6 in (14.78 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
| Speed: | 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph) |
| Complement: | 201 |
| Armament: | 2 × 3 in (76 mm) guns |
USS Monadnock (ACM-10) was a coastal minelayer in the U.S. Navy named after Mount Monadnock, a solitary mountain (monadnock) of more than 3,100 feet in southern New Hampshire close to the border of Massachusetts.
Monadnock, launched as SS Cavalier in 1938 by Pusey and Jones Corp., Wilmington, Delaware, was acquired by the U.S. Navy through purchase from the Philadelphia and Norfolk Steamship Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 9 June 1941; converted at the Bethlehem Steel Co., Atlantic Works, East Boston, Massachusetts; and commissioned as the Coastal Minelayer Monadnock (CMc-4), 2 December 1941, Lt. Comdr. Frederick O. Goldsmith in command.
Following shakedown in the Chesapeake Bay area, Monadnock operated in the 5th Naval District until 25 March, when she sailed for the British West Indies. While in the Caribbean, 1 May 1942, she was redesignated Minelayer CM-9. Returning to Virginia, 20 May, she resumed operations in the 5th Naval District. In late October she joined a convoy bound for North Africa. Arriving off Casablanca on 8 November, she remained in the assault area through the 11th, when she got underway for her return voyage across the Atlantic, arriving at Yorktown, Virginia, on the 30th.
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