USS Monomoy
USS Monomoy (AG-40) | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Monomoy |
| Namesake | A point and island south of the town of Chatham on Cape Cod between Nantucket Sound and the Atlantic Ocean |
| Owner |
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| Builder | Globe Shipbuilding Company, Duluth, Minnesota |
| Yard number | 104 |
| Launched | 29 August 1918 as Lake Arline |
| Completed | October 1918 |
| Acquired | 15 September 1941 as J. Floyd Massey, Jr. |
| Commissioned | 24 December 1941 as USS Monomoy (AG-40) |
| Recommissioned | as USCGC Monomoy (WPC-275) |
| Decommissioned | 22 October 1943 |
| Renamed | Monomoy, 15 October 1941 |
| Stricken | 30 October 1943 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1951 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | commercial cargo ship |
| Displacement | 2,580 tons |
| Length | 261 ft (80 m) |
| Beam | 43 ft 6 in (13.26 m) |
| Draft | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Installed power | triple expansion reciprocating steam engine |
| Propulsion | 1,200 shp (890 kW) single shaft |
| Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 70 officers and enlisted |
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USS Monomoy (AG-40) was a commercial cargo ship acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was outfitted with guns and depth charges and sent into the dangerous waters of the North Atlantic Ocean to furnish data used to predict storm movement and severe weather conditions to safeguard the continuous movement of merchant convoys, naval warships, and airplanes between North America and the United Kingdom, Murmansk, and other destinations. She served as an escort vessel when required. She was crewed by the U.S. Coast Guard and was eventually transferred to that agency as USCGC Monomoy (WAG-275).