USS Picket (ACM-8)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Picket and USCGC Willow.
USS Picket (ACM–8) was a Chimo-class minelayer of the United States Navy during World War II.
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Army M 1 Mine Planter USAMP MP-7 Major General Wallace F. Randolph a sister ship to USAMP-1 General Henry Knox. Records (#742), Special Collections Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Picket (ACM-8) |
Builder | Marietta Manufacturing Company, Point Pleasant, West Virginia |
Laid down | as USAMP-1 General Henry Knox for the U.S. Army Mine Planter Service |
Completed | 1942 – Navy conversion: 15 March 1945 |
Acquired | 2 January 1945 |
Commissioned | 6 March 1945 |
Decommissioned | 24 June 1946 |
Reclassified | ACM-8, 5 March 1945 |
Stricken | 19 July 1946 |
Fate | Transferred to the Coast Guard, 24 June 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 1,320 long tons (1,341 t) full |
Length | 188 ft 2 in (57.35 m) |
Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) |
Propulsion | Skinner Engine Company reciprocating steam engine; 2 Combustion Engineering boilers; twin propellers; 1,200 SHP. |
Speed | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
Complement | 69 |
Armament | 1 × 40 mm gun |
United States | |
Name | Willow (WAGL/WLB-332) |
Acquired | 1947 |
Commissioned | 20 September 1947 |
Decommissioned | 10 October 1969 |
Identification | IMO number: 7338298 |
Fate | Deleted from registers 1993 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 1,240 long tons (1,260 t) full |
Length | 188 ft 2 in (57.35 m) |
Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) |
Propulsion | Skinner Engine Company reciprocating steam engine; 2 Combustion Engineering boilers; twin propellers; 1,200 SHP. |
Speed | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
Range | 2,450 miles @ 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph) |
Complement | 52 |
Armament | Small arms only |
Notes | 20-ton boom capacity |
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Picket was completed 15 April 1942 by Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, West Virginia, as the U.S. Army mine planter USAMP-1 General Henry Knox as the first of the WW II period planters[1] built for the U.S. Army Mine Planter Service. USAMP Knox was transferred to the U.S. Navy 2 January 1945; completed conversion to an Auxiliary Minelayer, ACM-8, at Charleston Navy Yard 5 March 1945; and commissioned 6 March 1945.