Norma (AK-86)
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Norma (AK-86)[Note 1] was never commissioned and thus never bore the USS designation.[1] Norma is the name of constellation.
Sister ship USAPRS Thomas F. Farrel, Jr. underway off the East Coast of the United States, 26 August 1944. US National Archives photo # 80-G-420158 RG-80-G, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Norma |
Namesake | Constellation Norma |
Ordered | as MV Sumner Pierce, N3-M-A1 hull, MC hull 649 |
Builder | Penn-Jersey Shipbuilding Corp. |
Laid down | 3 December 1943 |
Launched | 4 June 1944 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Joseph Kijek |
Acquired | by Navy and transferred to U.S. Army 6 June 1944 |
Renamed | Norma (AK-86) 30 October 1942; Transferred to the U.S. Army 6 June 1944 for conversion to the Port Repair ship Henry Wright Hurley |
Stricken | by Navy 28 June 1944 |
Fate | Sold 31 March 1965 to Zidell Explorations, Inc., Portland, Oregon for scrapping. |
Notes | Norma (AK-86) was never commissioned and never saw service with the U.S. Navy. |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 1,677 t.(lt), 5,202 t.(fl) |
Length | 269 ft 10 in (82.25 m) |
Beam | 42 ft 6 in (12.95 m) |
Draft | 20 ft 9 in (6.32 m) |
Propulsion | Diesel, single shaft, 1,300shp |
Speed | 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph). |
Complement | 83 |
Armament | Navy design: 3 in (76 mm) dual purpose gun mount |
Notes | The ship was never commissioned and never saw U.S. Naval service. Conversion into a Port Repair ship radically altered design and appearance (See photos of a Port Repair ship returned to Navy). |
The ship was built as a Maritime Commission type N3-M-A1 cargo vessel at Penn-Jersey Shipbuilding Corp. intended for naval and Lend Lease service as M.C. hull 649 assigned the name MV Summer Pierce before being laid down on 3 December 1943. The ship was renamed and designated Norma (AK-86), 30 October 1942 intended as an Enceladus-class cargo ship for the U.S. Navy. Norma was delivered to the Navy on 6 June 1944 and transferred to the U.S. Army on the same day.[2] Norma was renamed Henry Wright Hurley[3] by the Army and began conversion into a U.S. Army Engineer Port Repair ship for service with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.[4]