USS Skagit
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USS Skagit (AKA-105/LKA-105) was a Tolland-class attack cargo ship in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1949 and from 1950 to 1969. She was scrapped in 1974.
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United States | |
Name | USS Skagit |
Namesake | Skagit County, Washington |
Ordered | July 1944 |
Builder | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina |
Laid down | 21 September 1944 |
Launched | 18 November 1944 |
Acquired | 28 November 1944 |
Commissioned | 2 May 1945 |
Decommissioned | 30 June 1949 |
Recommissioned | 26 August 1950 |
Decommissioned | 1 July 1969 |
Stricken | 1 July 1969 |
Honors and awards |
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Fate | Sold for scrap, 22 April 1974 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Tolland-class attack cargo ship |
Displacement |
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Length | 459 ft 2 in (139.95 m) |
Beam | 63 ft (19 m) |
Draft | 26 ft 4 in (8.03 m) |
Propulsion | GE geared turbine drive, single propeller, 6,000 hp (4,474 kW) |
Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
Range | 17,000 miles |
Boats & landing craft carried | |
Capacity | 380,000 ft3 (11.000 m³), 5,275 tons |
Complement | 62 officers, 333 men |
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