Camanche (ACM-11)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Camanche.

History
United States
Name
  • Brigadier General Royal T. Frank (Army)
  • ACM-11, MMA-11 and Camanche (Navy)
Launched1942 as USAMP Brigadier General Royal T. Frank for the US Army
Acquiredby the US Navy 1944
DecommissionedNever commissioned
ReclassifiedACM-11; reclassified MMA-11, 7 February 1945; Renamed Camanche 1 May 1945 while in Atlantic Reserve Fleet
IdentificationIMO number: 7730692
Fate
  • Transferred to Atlantic Reserve Fleet on acquisition from Army in 1944
  • Sold commercial, 1948 to become Pilgrim and later the Cape Cod.
General characteristics
Class and typeACM-11 class auxiliary minelayer
Displacement1,300 long tons (1,321 t) full
Length189 ft (58 m)
Beam37 ft (11 m)
Draft12 ft (3.7 m)
PropulsionTwo Combustion Engineering header type boilers, two 1,200shp Skinner Unaflow reciprocating engines, no reduction gear, two shafts.
Speed12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)

Camanche (ACM-11/MMA-11) was the name given in 1945 to the former U.S. Army Mine Planter (USAMP) Brigadier General Royal T. Frank (MP-12) while in naval inactive reserve more than ten years after acquisition of the ship by Navy from the Army in 1944. The ship had previously been classified by the Navy as an Auxiliary Mine Layer (ACM) and then Minelayer, Auxiliary (MMA).[1] The ship was never commissioned by Navy and thus never bore the "USS" prefix.[2]

  1. ^ Naval Vessel Register. "US Navy Inactive Classification Symbols". Naval Vessel Register. U.S. Navy. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Ship Naming in the United States Navy". Naval History & Heritage Command. Archived from the original on 3 July 1998. Retrieved 12 November 2011.