Monadnock (ACM-14)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Monadnock (ACM-10).

Monadnock (ACM-14) was originally built as an M1 mine planter^[1] for the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, Mine Planter Service as USAMP Major Samuel Ringgold (MP 11)^[2] by the Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, WV and delivered to the Army December 1942.^[3] The ship was the second mine planter named for Samuel Ringgold (1796–1846), an officer noted as the "Father of Modern Artillery" who fell in the Mexican–American War.

History
United States
Name	USAMP Major Samuel Ringgold (MP 11) for U.S. Army, ACM-14, Monadnock
Builder	Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, West Virginia for U.S. Army
Launched	6 October 1942
Acquired	by the US Navy, March 1951
Renamed	Monadnock, 1 May 1955
Reclassified	MMA-14, 7 February 1955
Stricken	1 July 1960
Identification	IMO number: 8522494
Fate	Sold commercial, lost 23 July 2004
General characteristics
Class and type	ACM-11 class 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	125

The mine planter was transferred to the U.S. Navy in March 1951 to become an Auxiliary Minelayer (ACM / MMA) under naval designation. She was then berthed at Boston as a unit of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. While in the Reserve Fleet, she was redesignated MMA-14, 7 February 1955, and named Monadnock, 1 May 1955; the second ACM to bear this name.^[4] The ship was never commissioned and thus never bore the "USS" prefix. Monadnock was struck from the Navy Directory on 1 July 1960 and sold to commercial interests. In commercial service the ship was named Tahiti, Amazonia, Dear, Majestic and finally Maxims des Mers before being lost on 23 July 2004.^[5]