A Place Called YORKSHIP Army Vessels of New York Shipbuilding Co.
	Last updated: 10 July 2009

Flag is hand-inscribed "U.S. Mine Planter Mills 1909" - see detail below.

This list includes vessels built for the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the U.S. Army. The most interesting ships on this list are the mine planters, which operated with the Coastal Artillery Service. America's coastal defenses included not only large gun batteries, but arrays of mines on the bottom at harbor entrances and in key ship channels. The mines were controlled by observers in towers, allowing friendly ships to pass in safety.

Designation	C#	Name(s)	Keel Laid	Ways	Launched	Delivered	Description	Notes
	15	Barnard	Oct 6, 1903	M	Mar 12, 1904	Jun 28, 1904	Dredge (U.S. War Department), 198' overall, 38' beam, 1300 tonnes displacement.	Built to deepen the Southwest Pass of Mississippi River. Helped in salvage of Maine. Sold to Jacksonville District for $25,000 and rebuilt as a seagoing hydraulic pipeline dredge.
	76	General John M. Schofield	Oct 12, 1908	K	Feb 20, 1909	Jun 2, 1909	Mine planting steamer (U.S. War Department), 172' overall, 32' beam, 11'-4" draft, 2 compound-expansion steam engines	Scrapped 1947
	77	General Royal T. Frank	Oct 20, 1908	L	Mar 15, 1909	Jun 08, 1909	Mine planting steamer (U.S. War Department), 172' overall, 32' beam, 11'-4" draft, 2 compound-expansion steam engines	Converted to inter-island transport. Torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-71 (I-171) north of Kohala, Hawaii, 29 Jan 1942. Frank sank in 30 seconds. Most of the 29 killed are Japanese-American Army recruits - Nisei.
WARC-58	75	General Samuel T. Mills Pequot	Oct 12, 1908	K	Feb 13, 1909	May 19. 1909	Mine planting steamer (U.S. War Department), 172' overall, 32' beam, 11'-4" draft, 2 compound-expansion steam engines	Became cable laying ship in Coast Guard service, May 1922. Under wartime orders, reassigned to US Navy 1941-1945. Returned to USCG Jan 1946 and decommissioned Dec 1946. Scrapped 1947 by Potomac Shipwrecking, Popes Creek, MD.
	194	General William M. Graham Panama City	Apr 2, 1917	J	Aug 29, 1917	Jan 3, 1918	Mine planting steamer (U.S. War Department), 172' overall, 32' beam, 11'-4" draft, 2 compound-expansion steam engines	Later Panama City, 1947. Scrapped at Mobile, Oct 1948.
	314	Pullen	Feb 23, 1926	M	Aug 18, 1926	Apr 30, 1927	Hydraulic dredge (U.S. Engineer's Office--Army Corps of Engineers)

C# = NYSB contract number

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