USS Keokuk (CMc-6)

History
United States
Name	SS Henry M. Flagler
Namesake	Henry Morrison Flagler
Operator	Florida East Coast Car Ferry Company
Builder	William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Laid down	1914
Launched	22 September 1914
Fate	Requisitioned by US Navy, 28 July 1941
United States
Name	USS Keokuk
Acquired	by requisition, 28 July 1941
Commissioned	28 February 1942
Decommissioned	5 December 1945
Reclassified	Coastal Minelayer, CMc-6, 1941 Net Layer, AN-5, 1941 Minelayer, CM-8, 18 May 1942 Net Cargo Ship, AKN-4, 1943
Fate	Sold, 7 March 1947
General characteristics
Type	Commercial cargo carrier
Displacement	6,150 long tons (6,249 t)
Length	353 ft (108 m)
Beam	57 ft (17 m)
Draft	17 ft (5.2 m)
Propulsion	2 × Cramp vertical triple expansion engines, 2,700 shp (2,013 kW) each 4 × Scotch single-ended cylindrical boilers 2 shafts
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	278
Armament	3 × 3"/50 dual-purpose gun mounts 2 × twin 40 mm AA guns 4 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns 2 × .30 caliber machine guns
Service record
Operations:	World War II Invasion of Sicily Battle of Saipan Battle of Okinawa
Awards:	5 battle stars

USS Keokuk (AN-5/CM-8/CMc-6/AKN-4) was a mine and net laying ship of the United States Navy during World War II.

Laid down in 1914 as the SS Henry M. Flagler by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, and renamed SS Columbia Heights in 1940, she was acquired by the U.S. Navy on 28 July 1941 for conversion to a coastal minelayer, CMc-6. Reclassified as a net layer, AN-5, and named USS Keokuk on 15 August 1941, she was commissioned on 28 February 1942. Reclassified as a minelayer, CM-8, on 18 May 1942, and again as a net cargo ship, AKN-4, in November 1943.