USS Newberry
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USS Newberry (APA-158) was a Haskell-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1984.
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United States | |
Name | USS Newberry |
Namesake | Newberry County, South Carolina |
Ordered | as type VC2-S-AP5 |
Laid down | 10 June 1944 |
Launched | 24 August 1944 |
Acquired | 6 October 1944 |
Commissioned | 7 October 1944 |
Decommissioned | 21 February 1946 |
Stricken | 12 March 1946 |
Fate | Scrapped 1984 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 12,450 tons (full load) |
Length | 455 ft 0 in (138.68 m) |
Beam | 62 ft 0 in (18.90 m) |
Draft | 24 ft 0 in (7.32 m) |
Speed | 19 knots |
Complement | 536 |
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