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USS Myers
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For similarly named United States Navy ships, see USS Meyer.
USS Myers (APD-105), ex-DE-595, was a United States Navy high-speed transport in commission from 1945 to 1947.
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Name | USS Myers |
Namesake | Machinist's Mate First Class Merton B. Myers (1921-1943), a U.S. Navy sailor and Navy Cross recipient |
Builder | Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., Hingham, Massachusetts |
Laid down | 15 January 1944 |
Launched | 15 February 1944 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Ralph W. Myers |
Commissioned | 26 March 1945 |
Decommissioned | 13 January 1947 |
Reclassified | From destroyer escort (DE-595) to high-speed transport (APD-105) 17 July 1944 |
Stricken | 1 June 1960 |
Fate | Sold to Colombia for use as a floating power station |
Notes | Laid down as Rudderow-class destroyer escort USS Myers (DE-595) |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Crosley-class high speed transport |
Displacement | 2,130 long tons (2,164 t) full |
Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 12 ft 7 in (3.84 m) |
Speed | 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) |
Troops | 162 |
Complement | 204 |
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