Monadnock (ACM-14) was originally built as an M1 mine planter[1] for the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, Mine Planter Service as USAMP Major Samuel Ringgold (MP 11)[2] by the Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, WV and delivered to the Army December 1942.

[3] The ship was the second mine planter named for Samuel Ringgold (1796–1846), an officer noted as the "Father of Modern Artillery" who fell in the Mexican–American War.

The mine planter was transferred to the U.S. Navy in March 1951 to become an Auxiliary Minelayer (ACM / MMA) under naval designation.

Monadnock was struck from the Navy Directory on 1 July 1960 and sold to commercial interests.

In commercial service the ship was named Tahiti, Amazonia, Dear, Majestic and finally Maxims des Mers before being lost on 23 July 2004.