History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Chimo (ACM-1) |
Builder | Marietta Manufacturing Company, Point Pleasant, West Virginia |
Laid down | 1943 as USAMP Colonel Charles W. Bundy for the U.S. Army |
Launched | 1943 |
Acquired | 7 April 1944 |
Commissioned | 7 April 1944 |
Decommissioned | 21 May 1946 |
Stricken | 19 July 1946 |
Honours and awards | 2 battle stars |
Fate | Sold, 28 September 1948 |
Notes | Converted to tuna seiner MV Day Island |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Chimo-class minelayer |
Displacement | 880 long tons (894 t) |
Length | 188 ft 2 in (57.35 m) |
Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) |
Propulsion | Two Combustion Engineering header type boilers, two 1,200shp Skinner Unaflow reciprocating engines, two shafts. |
Speed | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
Complement | 69 |
Armament | 1 × 40 mm gun |
The second USS Chimo (ACM-1) was the lead ship of her class of minelayers in the United States Navy during World War II.
Chimo was built as USAMP Colonel Charles W. Bundy for the U.S. Army Mine Planter Service by Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, West Virginia; converted at Norfolk Navy Yard; acquired by the U.S. Navy on 7 April 1944; commissioned the same day and reported to the Atlantic Fleet.