USS Pitt
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USS Pitt (APA-223/LPA-223) was a Haskell-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1947. She was scrapped in 1980.
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Name | Pitt |
Namesake | Pitt County, North Carolina |
Ordered | as a Type VC2-S-AP5 hull, MCE hull 571[1] |
Builder | Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond, California |
Yard number | 571[1] |
Laid down | 8 September 1944 |
Launched | 10 November 1944 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Gwin Fallis |
Commissioned | 11 December 1944 |
Decommissioned | 9 April 1947 |
Reclassified | redesignated Amphibious Transport (LPA-223), 14 August 1968 |
Stricken | 23 April 1947 |
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Honors and awards | 1 × battle star for World War II service |
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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) |
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Troops | 86 officers, 1,475 enlisted |
Complement | 56 officers, 480 enlisted |
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Service record | |
Part of: | TransRon 13 |
Operations: | Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto (2–12 April 1945) |
Awards: |
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