USS Miantonomah (ACM-13)
Seen here as USAMP Col. Horace F. Spurgin (MP 14) US Navy photo from the March 1950 edition of All Hands magazine. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USAMP Col. Horace F. Spurgin MP-14 |
| Namesake | Col. Horace Fletcher Spurgin, US Army Coast Artillery Corps |
| Ordered | 1942 |
| Builder | Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, West Virginia, hull #487. |
| 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 |
| 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." |
| 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. |
| 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 |
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USS Miantonomah (ACM-13/MMA-13) was built as the US Army Mine Planter USAMP Col. Horace F. Spurgin (MP-14) 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. Col. Horace F. Spurgin was transferred from the US Army to the US Navy and commissioned as ACM-13 on 25 January 1950. 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. 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.