&sq=&lang=&file=File:Miantonomah_(MMA_13).jpg) Seen here as USAMP Col. Horace F. Spurgin (MP 14) US Navy photo from the March 1950 edition of All Hands magazine.
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USAMP Col. Horace F. Spurgin MP-14[1][2] |
| Namesake | Col. Horace Fletcher Spurgin, US Army Coast Artillery Corps |
| Ordered | 1942 |
| Builder | Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, West Virginia, hull #487.[2] |
| Launched | 1943 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Barbee Rothgeb |
| Notes | One of sixteen M1 Mine Planters ordered by US Army Coast Artillery Corps 1942–1943 |
| United States | |
| Name | USS ACM-13[3] |
| Namesake | "A variant spelling of Miantonomoh (q.v.). The name was most likely assigned to commemorate the service of the previous ship of the name."[3] |
| Launched | 24 December 1942 |
| Acquired | by the US Navy, as ACM-13, 25 January 1950 |
| Commissioned | 25 January 1950 |
| Decommissioned | 19 July 1955 at Terminal Island, Long Beach, California |
| Renamed | Miantonomah, 1 May 1955 |
| Reclassified | MMA-13, 7 February 1955 |
| Stricken | 1 July 1960 |
| Identification | IMO number: 7307392 |
| Fate | Incorporated into breakwater at Tyee Marina in Tacoma, Washington on 12 August 2009 after service as fishing vessel, later scrapped circa 2021 by Ballard Marine Construction, Inc., of Washougal, WA.[4] |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Auxiliary 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 | 135 |
USS Miantonomah (ACM-13/MMA-13) was built as the US Army Mine Planter USAMP Col. Horace F. Spurgin (MP-14)[1][2] for the U.S. Army by Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1943. Col. Horace F. Spurgin was christened by Mrs. Barbee Rothgeb.[5] Col. Horace F. Spurgin was transferred from the US Army to the US Navy and commissioned as ACM-13 on 25 January 1950.[3] After decommissioning and sale to commercial interests 17 February 1961, the ship remained in the fishing fleet into the 1990s before becoming part of a breakwater in Tacoma, Washington.[1][4] Photos of the ship being dismantled for scrap by Ballard Marine Construction, Inc., of Washougal, WA, were added to navsource.org in 2021, but the exact timeframe of her sale & scrapping is not clear.
- ^ a b c "Coast Artillery Corps Army Mine Planter Service". Army Ships – The Ghost Fleet. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
- ^ a b c "U.S. Army Mine Craft". Shipbuilding History. Archived from the original on 23 June 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
- ^ a b c "Miantonomah". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS). Naval History & Heritage Command. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
- ^ a b Stubbs, Kyle (22 September 2009). "NEW STAR – IMO 7307392". Shipspotting.com. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
- ^ "The Maybach and the Spurgin". Coast Artillery Journal. 86 (1): 71. January–February 1943.