USS Planter (ACM-2)

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USS Planter in April 1946
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NameUSS Planter (ACM-2)
BuilderMarietta Manufacturing Company, Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Laid downas Colonel George Ricker for the U.S. Army, 1943
Acquired4 April 1944
Commissioned4 April 1944
Decommissioned22 May 1946
Stricken23 December 1947
Identification IMO number:  5408506
Honors and
awards		1 battle star
FateTransferred to the Maritime Commission, 9 April 1948, and later sold
General characteristics
Class and type Chimo-class minelayer
Displacement1,300 long tons (1,321 t) full
Length188 ft 2 in (57.35 m)
Beam37 ft (11 m)
Draft12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Speed12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph)
Complement69
Armament1 × 40 mm gun

The second USS Planter (ACM-2) was a Chimo-class minelayer in the United States Navy during World War II.

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Planter was built as the U.S. Army mine planter USAMP Col. George Ricker by Marietta Manufacturing Company, Point Pleasant, West Virginia and delivered to the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, Mine Planter Service in 1943. [1] The ship was acquired by the U.S. Navy on 4 April 1944 and commissioned at Norfolk, Virginia, on the same date.

Service history

World War II Invasion of Europe operations

Planter was assigned to Service Squadron Five, Atlantic Fleet, and got underway in convoy for the Mediterranean, 13 May 1944, reaching the Azores on 24 May, and arriving at Bizerte, Tunisia, 12 June. She continued on to put into Naples, thence to southern France to support minesweeping and buoy laying operations conducted during and after Operation Dragoon. At Toulon, on 1 September, she rescued 31 survivors from YMS–21, sunk by a mine, then resumed her support activities, continuing them until departing for Bizerte 12 November. From the latter she sailed to Cagliari, Sardinia, thence to Oran, en route back to the United States, arriving at Norfolk on 17 January 1945.

Pacific Theatre operations

Converted to minesweep gear and repair ship at Charleston, she departed for the Canal Zone on 6 April; entered the Pacific for duty with Minecraft, Pacific, 17 April; and reached Pearl Harbor 17 May. Continuing westward, she anchored off Okinawa 4 July to render tender services to YMSs. In August she steamed to the Philippines, where she received news of the war's end. She returned to Okinawa 25 August and remained until 9 December when she got underway for Honshū. Between 13 December and 25 February 1946 she provided mine tender services in Japanese waters, then got underway for the United States, arriving at San Francisco 16 April.

Decommissioning

Decommissioned 22 May 1946, her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 23 December 1947. On 9 April 1948 she was transferred to the Maritime Commission and was subsequently sold to Foss Launch and Tug Co., Oakland, California.

Awards

Planter received one battle star for World War II service.

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References

  1. ↑ Colton, Tim (1 December 2016). "U.S. Army Mine Craft (MP, JMP, L, M) Built During WWII". Shipbuilding History. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
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