Camanche (ACM 11) Class: Photographs
| These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of this class and major subsequent modifications. For more views see the former NHHC (now Hyperwar) Online Library of Selected Images and the NavSource Photo Archive. |
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US Army Brigadier General Royal T Frank (MP 12) Being launched on 31 October 1942 by the Marietta Manufacturing Company in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. She became USS ACM 12 in 1949 and was named Camanche in 1955 but never saw any naval service. Photo No. 0742-s2-ss2.1-b26-fd-i413 Source: East Carolina Manuscript Collection (digital.lib.ecu.edu/11401) |
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USS ACM 13 (ACM 13) At the U.S. Naval Station, Treasure Island, Cal, on 25 January 1950, the date of her commissioning in the Navy. She is still wearing her Army name, rendered as Spurgin with number MP 14. Effective 1 May 1955, USS ACM 13 received the name Miantonomah. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS ACM 13 (ACM 13) At the U.S. Naval Station, Treasure Island, Cal, on 25 January 1950, the date of her commissioning in the Navy. She is still wearing her Army name, rendered as Spurgin with number MP 14. Effective 1 May 1955, USS ACM 13 received the name Miantonomah. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS ACM 13 (ACM 13) During an inclining experiment at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard on 17 May 1950. Her Army markings have been replaced with her Navy name, ACM 13. Her Army duties as a mine planter involved laying cables to connect coastal mines to control facilities ashore, hence the small cable sheaves in the bow. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS ACM 13 (ACM 13) During an inclining experiment at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard on 17 May 1950. Her Army markings have been replaced with her Navy name, ACM 13. She became USS Miantonomah (ACM 13) effective 1 May 1955. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Canonicus (MMA 12) In reserve at Philadelphia circa the late 1950s. She had been in commission from 1949 to 1955. Four sisters were acquired by the Navy in 1949 and 1951 but never put in commission. Photo No. NH 83211 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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