USS Wrangell
Ammunition ship of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS Wrangell (AE-12) was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1375) as SS Midnight during February 1944 at Wilmington, North Carolina, by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company; launched on 14 April 1944; sponsored by Mrs. G. T. Cambell; delivered to the Navy, incomplete, on 28 May 1944; moved to Hampton Roads; converted to an ammunition ship by the Norfolk Shipbuilding and Drydock Co.; and commissioned on 10 October 1944 at the Norfolk Navy Yard.
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USS Wrangall in the South China Sea, 1966. | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Wrangell |
Namesake | Mount Wrangell in Alaska |
Builder | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina |
Laid down | February 1944 |
Launched | 14 April 1944 |
Commissioned | 10 October 1944 |
Decommissioned | 19 November 1946 |
Recommissioned | 14 November 1951 |
Decommissioned | 21 December 1970 |
Stricken | 1 October 1976 |
Honors and awards |
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Fate | Scrapped (1983) |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Mount Hood-class ammunition ship |
Length | 459 ft 2 in (140 m) |
Beam | 63 ft (19.2 m) |
Draught | 28 ft 3 in (8.6 m) |
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Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
Capacity | 7,700 long tons (7,800 t) deadweight |
Complement | 267 officers and enlisted |
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