USS Sebastian
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USS Sebastian (AK-211) was an Alamosa-class cargo ship that was constructed for the US Navy during the closing period of World War II. She was retained by the Navy for only a short period of service before being inactivated as "excess to needs."
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Name | Sebastian |
Namesake | Sebastian County, Arkansas |
Ordered | as type (C1-M-AV1) hull, MC hull 2165[1] |
Builder | Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin |
Yard number | 331[1] |
Laid down | 10 August 1944 |
Launched | 21 December 1944 |
Sponsored by | Miss J.C. Sullivan |
Acquired | 10 August 1945 |
Commissioned | 11 September 1945 |
Decommissioned | 14 November 1945 |
Stricken | 28 November 1945 |
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Fate | transferred back to MARCOM, 14 November 1945 |
United States | |
Name | Coastal Spartan |
Owner | MARCOM |
Operator | Fall River Navigation Company (1947) |
Acquired | 14 November 1945 |
In service | 14 November 1945 |
Out of service | 12 May 1948 |
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Acquired | 31 October 1966 |
Renamed | May 1967 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 22 January 1976 |
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Class and type | Alamosa-class cargo ship |
Type | C1-M-AV1 |
Tonnage | 5,032 long tons deadweight (DWT)[1] |
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Length | 388 ft 8 in (118.47 m) |
Beam | 50 ft (15 m) |
Draft | 21 ft 1 in (6.43 m) |
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Propulsion | 1 × propeller |
Speed | 11.5 kn (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
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