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Terror

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
CM5, 2.1955- MM5, 10.1955- MMF5	Terror		Philadelphia N Yd	9.1940	6.6.1941	7.1942	stricken 11.1970

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	5875
Displacement full, t	8640
Length, m	134.1 wl 138.6 oa
Breadth, m	18.3
Draught, m	6.00 oa
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 boilers
Power, h. p.	11000
Max speed, kts	18
Fuel, t	oil 1834
Endurance, nm(kts)	10000 (15)
Armament	4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 12, 4 x 4 - 28/75 Mk 1, 14 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 900 mines
Electronic equipment	presumably SC, SG, Mk 4 radars
Complement	481

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Project history

Unique American special purpose built minelaying ship. On early design stages variant with 25kts speed was considered, but the preference has been returned to less fast but much more capacious variant.

Mine deck was been completely covered, six mine rails have been calculated for carrying 648 mines, 548 more mines were stored on lower decks. For their feeding upward two lifts were used. Settlement mine capacity was almost 1200, however with new mines their number fluctuated from 800 to 875.

Though the ship had no armour, damage tolerance was ensured on cruiser standards: the double bottom transferred to a double side, and in enhanced project on which it was supposed to build two more minelayers (future LSV Catskill and Ozark), the armour deck was provided.

Originally light AA armament had been presented by only 12.7mm MGs, but during completion MGs were been changed on 4 quadruple 28mm guns and 14 single 20mm Oerlikons.

Modernizations

1943 - 1944: - 4 x 4 - 28/75; + 4 x 4 - 40/56 Mk 1.2.

1/1946: 4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 4 x 4 - 40/60 Mk 2, 14 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 900 mines, SC, SG, Mk 4 radars

Naval service

30.4.1945 Terror was badly damaged by kamikaze at Okinawa.