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Home > Art, Film & Photography > Chimo Class Minelayers: USS Picket, USS Trapper, USS Barricade, USS Obstructor, USS Planter, USS Bastion, USS Barbican, USS Chimo
Chimo Class Minelayers: USS Picket, USS Trapper, USS Barricade, USS Obstructor, USS Planter, USS Bastion, USS Barbican, USS Chimo

Chimo Class Minelayers: USS Picket, USS Trapper, USS Barricade, USS Obstructor, USS Planter, USS Bastion, USS Barbican, USS Chimo


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Chapters: Uss Picket, Uss Trapper, Uss Barricade, Uss Obstructor, Uss Planter, Uss Bastion, Uss Barbican, Uss Chimo. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Records (#742), Special Collections Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. USS Picket (ACM8) was a Chimo-class minelayer of the United States Navy during World War II. 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 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, Lt. Robert F. Harwood in command. Picket departed Charleston, South Carolina on 11 March 1945, and arrived Little Creek, Virginia, 13 March. Following shakedown, she reported for duty 3 April to Commander, Service Force, Atlantic, Norfolk, Virginia. Loaded with minesweeping equipment, she departed Norfolk 26 April, transited the Panama Canal 7 May, and arrived San Diego, California, 20 May. Following training, Picket departed San Diego 9 June, and proceeded via Pearl Harbor, Eniwetok, Guam, and Saipan to Okinawa, arriving 28 July to serve as minesweeper tender. Picket departed Okinawa on 16 August, and, following rendezvous with Task Force 31 on the 21st, she entered Tokyo Bay on the 28th. With minesweepers, she departed Tokyo Bay on 12 September, and arrived at Wakayama, Japan, on the 14th. Sailing from Kii Suido on 20 September, she entered the Inland Sea on the 22nd. Through 31 October she operated with minesweepers to clear the approaches to Hiro, Kure, Gun...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1152815


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156827505
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 38
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156827507
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: USS Picket, USS Trapper, USS Barricade, USS Obstructor, USS Planter, USS Bastion, USS Barbican, USS Chimo
  • Width: 229 mm


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