USS Aroostook (CM-3)
USS Aroostook in harbor |
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Aroostook |
| Launched: | 26 March 1907, as SS Bunker Hill |
| Acquired: | 12 November 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 7 December 1917 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 March 1931 |
| Renamed: | Aroostook, November 1917 |
| Reclassified: | ID-1256 (Mine planter), November 1917 CM-3 (Minelayer), mid-1920 AK-44 (Cargo ship), May 1941 |
| Struck: | 5 February 1943 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap in October 1947 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Minelayer |
| Displacement: | 3,800 long tons (3,900 t) |
| Length: | 395 ft (120 m) |
| Beam: | 52 ft 2 in (15.90 m) |
| Draft: | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
| Speed: | 20 kn (23 mph; 37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 313 |
| Armament: | 1 × 5 in (130 mm)/51 cal gun, 2 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal dual purpose guns, 2 × .30 in (7.6 mm) Colt machine guns |
The USS Aroostook (ID-1256/CM-3/AK-44) was the Eastern Steamship Company's Bunker Hill converted for planting the World War I North Sea Mine Barrage. Bunker Hill was built in 1907 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for passenger service between Boston and New York City. Bunker Hill and her sister ship Massachusetts were among the eight ships acquired by the U.S. Navy in November 1917. The two coastal passenger steamers were converted to minelayers at the Boston Navy Yard.
Read more about USS Aroostook (CM-3): World War I For The USS Aroostook - 1918, An Aircraft Tender, 1919 - 31, Decommissioning and Sale, 1931 - 47