guarding approaches to coastal fortifications. Numerous smaller vessels, not designated as USAMP, worked with the planters in a mine flotilla. Mine Planters & Associated Ships 1904-1909; Col. George Armistead (1904) Cyrus W. Field (1904) Col. Henry J. Hunt (1904) Gen. Henry Knox (1904) Maj. Samuel Ringgold (1904) Gen. Royal T. Frank (1909) Joseph Henry (1909) Gen. Samuel M. Mills (1909) Gen. E. O. C. Ord (1909) Gen. John M. Schofield (1909) Mine Planters 1917-1919; Gen. William M. Graham (1917) Col. George F. E. Harrison (1919) Gen. Absalom Baird (1919) Gen. J. Franklin Bell / Brig. Gen. John J. Hayden (1919) Brig. Gen. Edmund Kirby (1919) Gen. Wallace F. Randolph (1919) Gen. John P. Story (1919) Col. Albert Todd (1919) Col. Garland N. Whistler (1919) Col. John V. White (1919) Mine Planters 1937; Lt. Col. Ellery W. Niles (1937) Numbered Mine Planters 1942-1943; USAMP General Henry Knox (MP-1) (1942) USAMP Colonel Henry J. Hunt (MP-2) (1942) USAMP Colonel George Armistead (MP-3) (1942) Gen. Samuel M. Mills (MP-4) (1942) USAMP 1st Lt. William G. Sylvester (MP-5) (1942) Brig. Gen. Henry L. Abbott (MP-6) (1942) USAMP Major General Wallace F. Randolph (MP-7) (1942) USAMP Colonel John Storey (MP-8) (1942) Maj. Gen. Arthur Murray (MP-9) (1942) Maj. Gen. Erasmus Weaver (MP-10) (1942) Maj. Samuel Ringgold (MP-11) (1942) Brig. Gen. Royal T. Frank (MP-12) (1943) Col. Alfred A. Maybach (MP-13) (1943) Col. Horace F. Spurgin (MP-14) (1943) Col. Charles W. Bundy (MP-15) (1943) Col. George Ricker (MP-16) (1943) Note Junior Mine Planters Smaller vessels known as, "junior mine planters", or "pup planters", were occasionally employed as mine planters, but for the most part they served as freight and passenger boats for river and harbor duty. One source states the Army had 30 junior mine planters by 1919. Junior Mine Planters 1904–1909 JMP Major Evan Thomas (1904) JMP Lt. George M. Harris (1905) JMP General Robert Swartwout (1905) JMP Major Albert G. Forse (1907) JMP Capt. T.W. Morrison (1907) JMP Capt. Charles W. Rowell (1907) JMP Capt. A.M. Wetherill (1907) JMP General Richard Arnold (1909) (sunk by a storm 1942) JMP General Romeyn B. Ayres (1909) JMP Capt. Gregory Barrett (1909) JMP General John M. Brannan (1909) JMP General Harvey Brown (1909) JMP Capt. Joseph Furnace (1909) JMP General G.W. Getty (1909) JMP General A.M. Randol (1909) Junior Mine Planters 1919-1921 JMP Capt. Edwin C. Long (1919) JMP Capt. Fred L. Perry (1919) JMP Colonel Card