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Contact Info
Home Town Nanty-Glo, PA
Last Address RD1, Conemaugh, PA.
Date of Passing Dec 25, 1963
Location of Interment Saint Mary's Cemetery - Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania
Wall/Plot Coordinates Section E, Row 13, Headstone 5
USS Terror CM-5 patch: http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/11060599.jpg
(other designations: February 1955 changed to MM-5, October 1955 changed to MMF-5)
Terror Class Minelayer:
- The third Terror was laid down 3 September 1940 at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA
- Launched 6 June 1941
- Commissioned USS Terror (CM-5), 15 July 1942.
- Decommissioned in July 1947 at Charleston, SC.
- Placed in service, in reserve, during the Korean War.
- Reclassified as a Fleet Minelayer, MM-5, 7 February 1955
- Designation for Fleet Minelayer changed to MMF-5 in October 1955.
- Decommissioned 6 August 1956.
- Struck from the Navy Register 1 November 1970
- Sold for scrap in November 1971 to the Union Minerals and Alloys Corp. of New York, NY.
Specifications:
- Displacement 5,875 t.
- Length 454' 10"
- Beam 60' 2'
- Draft 19' 7"
- Speed 20.3 kts.
- Compliment 481
- Armament: Four 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts, and 16 - 1.1" mounts
(later replaced 1.1" mounts with four quad 40mm gun mounts and fourteen 20mm guns)
- Propulsion: Two sets of 11,000shp General Electric double-reduction geared steam turbines, two shafts.
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Pacific (via the Panama Canal)
- 1943: San Francisco
- 1943: Pearl Harbor, Ellice Islands, Funafuti (battle, support to a constr. batt.)
- 1943: Pearl Harbor (layed mooring buoys), Tarawa
- 1943: Espiritu Santo, Guadacanal, Makin Island (minelaying)
- 1943/1944: Tarawa, Pearl Harbor, San Francisco (3 days in SF)
- 1944: Pearl Harbor, Majuro, Marshall Islands (minelaying)
- 1944: Pearl Harbor, Marianna Islands. San Francisco
- 1944: Pearl Harbor, Ulithi, Carolines, Admiralties
- 1944/1945: Pearl Harbor (excerises, re-outfitting as a flag-ship & minecraft tender for remainder of war)
- 1945: Eniwetok, Carolines, Ulithi, Tinian (tender for minecraft), Volcano Islands
- 1945: Battle of Iwo Jima (bombardment, tender for lighters, support to UDT, medical)
- 1945: Mariannas, Saipan
- 1945: Ulithi (tender for minecraft), Kerama Retto (tender for minecraft)
- 1945: Battle of Okinawa (bombardment, tender for lighters and minecraft, medical)
- April/May 1945: Keramo Retto (several bombing and Kamikaze attacks on base and all ships in harbor)
(1 May 1945: Kamikaze struck communications platform & wardroom: 41 KIA, 14 MIA, 123 WIA)
(moored to USS Natrona, APA-214, for emergency repairs)
(8 May 1945: departed forward are to join convoy heading back to ConUS)
(during April 1945: general quarters/battle stations 93 times from 7 minutes to 6.5 hours at a time)
- 1945: Saipan, Eniwetok, Pearl Harbor, San Francisco (major repairs of battle damage)
Post War
- 1945 (post war): Pearl Harbor, Saipan, Okinawa, Korea (Buckner Bay)
- 1946: Pearl Harbor, san Francisco (operations)
Carribean (via Panama Canal)
- 1947: Puerto Rico (San Juan) (operations)
- July 1947: Charleston (for inactivation)
Like many cross-ocean vessels of the time, the ship was used to transport troops, wounded, equipment, and supplies between the states and forward areas, besides their doing their mission.
Terror received four battle stars for World War II service.
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EM2 William Joseph Ringleib Jr. (1925 - 2004), served on the USS Terror 1944 - 1946
