USS Neshoba
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USS Neshoba (APA 216) was a Haskell-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1975.
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Neshoba (APA-216), circa in early 1946 | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Neshoba |
Namesake | Neshoba County, Mississippi |
Ordered | as a Type VC2-S-AP5 hull, MCE hull 564[1] |
Builder | Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond, California |
Yard number | 564[1] |
Laid down | 3 July 1944 |
Launched | 7 October 1944 |
Commissioned | 16 November 1944 |
Decommissioned | 4 December 1946 |
Stricken | 1 October 1958 |
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Honors and awards | 1 × battle star for World War II service |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 5 March 1975, delivered, 26 March 1975 |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | Haskell-class attack transport |
Type | Type VC2-S-AP5 |
Displacement | |
Length | 455 ft (139 m) |
Beam | 62 ft (19 m) |
Draft | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 17.7 kn (32.8 km/h; 20.4 mph) |
Boats & landing craft carried |
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Capacity |
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Troops | 87 officers, 1,475 enlisted |
Complement | 99 officers, 593 enlisted |
Armament |
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Service record | |
Part of: | TransRon 18 |
Operations: | Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto (1–5 April 1945) |
Awards: |
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