SS Rebecca Lukens
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SS Rebecca Lukens was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Rebecca Lukens, the owner and manager of the iron and steel mill which became the Lukens Steel Company of Coatesville, Pennsylvania.
World War II Liberty ship of the United States
 Rebecca Lukens off Saipan or Iwo Jima | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | Rebecca Lukens |
| Namesake | Rebecca Lukens |
| Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
| Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 1551 |
| Builder | J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida |
| Cost | $1,333,920[1] |
| Yard number | 33 |
| Way number | 6 |
| Laid down | 7 January 1944 |
| Launched | 4 March 1944 |
| Completed | 10 April 1944 |
| In service | 1944-1946 |
| Fate | Transferred to the Army Transport Service (ATS), 10 April 1944 |
| United States | |
| Name |
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| Namesake | Herbert A. Dargue |
| Owner | WSA |
| Operator | ATS |
| Acquired | 10 April 1944 |
| Commissioned | 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 1946 |
| In service | 1944-1946 |
| Renamed | April 1945 |
| Refit | Converted to an Aircraft Repair Unit (Floating) (ARU(F)) |
| Identification | ARU(F)-2 |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping, 3 September 1970 |
| General characteristics [2] | |
| Class and type |
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| Tonnage | 7,237 tons |
| Displacement | 14,474 tons |
| Length | 441 feet |
| Beam | 57 feet |
| Draft | 28 foot draft[3] |
| Installed power | triple-expansion reciprocating steam engines |
| Propulsion | 500 horsepower steam engine |
| Speed | 11 knots |
| Capacity | 4,380 net tons |
| Complement | |
| Armament | stern-mounted 4-in deck gun 3 x 20-mm (0.79-in) Oerlikon AA guns[4] |
| Notes | [5][6][7] |
| General characteristics ARU(F)[8] | |
| Type | Aircraft Repair Unit (Floating) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | |
| Complement |
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| Aircraft carried | 4 × Sikorsky R-4s |
| Aviation facilities | 3 × Landing platforms |
She was converted in 1944 at Point Clear, Alabama into an Aircraft Repair Unit (Floating) and transferred to the Army Transport Service (ATS), after which she was renamed Major General Herbert A. Dargue, for Herbert Dargue, a pioneering military aviator in the United States Army.