USS Aroostook (CM-3)
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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 was one of three sister ships, the others being Massachusetts and Old Colony, delivered as passenger/cargo ships by William Cramp & Sons in 1907.[4][5][6] They were among the eight ships acquired by the U.S. Navy in November 1917. Bunker Hill and Massachusetts were converted to minelayers at the Boston Navy Yard.[5] Old Colony was used as a district scout until sent across the Atlantic and turned over to the British in 1919.[6]
After freight to passenger conversion 1911 and before Navy conversion. See SS Bunker Hill at New York in 1908 for ship as freighter. | |
History | |
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Name | Bunker Hill |
Owner |
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Ordered | 1906 |
Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Yard number | 343 |
Launched | 26 March 1907 |
Identification |
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Fate | Converted to passenger service & fuel oil, 1911 |
General characteristics [1][2] | |
Tonnage | |
Length | 375 ft (114.3 m) Registered |
Beam | 52.2 ft (15.9 m) |
Depth |
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Installed power | 5,000 ihp |
Crew |
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USS Aroostook in harbor | |
History | |
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United States | |
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Acquired | 12 November 1917 |
Commissioned | 7 December 1917 |
Decommissioned | 10 March 1931 |
Renamed | Aroostook, 15 November 1917 |
Reclassified |
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Stricken | 5 February 1943 |
Fate | Sold for scrap in October 1947 |
Notes | Navy purchase price of $1,350,000 (hull and machinery)[3] |
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 |