''Monadnock'' (ACM-14) was originally built as an M1 mine planter for the
U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps,
Mine Planter Service
The U.S. Army Mine Planter Service (AMPS) was an outgrowth of civilian crewed Army mine planter ships dating back to 1904. It was established on July 22, 1918 by War Department Bulletin 43 and placed the Mine Planter Service under the U.S. Army Co ...
as USAMP ''Major Samuel Ringgold'' (MP 11)
by the Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, WV and delivered to the Army December 1942. 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.
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. 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.
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Ships built in Point Pleasant, West Virginia
1942 ships
Mine planters of the United States Army
Camanche-class minelayers
World War II mine warfare vessels of the United States