USAMP Colonel George F. E. Harrison
USAMP Colonel George F. E. Harrison | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States Army | |
| Name | USAMP Colonel George F. E. Harrison |
| Builder | Fabricated Ship Corporation |
| Launched | 1920 |
| Fate | Sunk by Japanese aircraft 5 May 1942 at Corregidor |
| Imperial Japanese Navy | |
| Name | Harushima |
| Acquired | Raised and repaired July 1942 |
| Fate | Sunk by American aircraft 18 July 1945 at Yokosuka Navy Base |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 1,130 long tons (1,150 t) |
| Length | 172 ft 6 in (52.58 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draft | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
| Installed power | 2 steam engines, 1,040 horsepower |
| Propulsion | 2 propellers |
USAMP Colonel George F. E. Harrison was a steel-hulled ship built for service in the U.S. Army as a mine planter. She was launched in 1920. The ship served in the defense of the Canal Zone and Manila. She was present in Manila Bay on 7 December 1941 when hostilities began between the United States and Japan in World War II. She earned a Presidential Unit Citation for her part in the defense of Manila and Subic Bay, but was sunk by Japanese dive bombers in early May 1942.
The Japanese raised and repaired the ship. She was commissioned in the Imperial Japanese Navy as IJN Harushima. She laid electrical cable off Honshu, escorted convoys, and made anti-submarine patrols in 1944. In July 1945 she was sunk by U.S. Navy aircraft at the Yokosuka Navy base near Tokyo.