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Displacement |
6556 tons light displacement |
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Dimensions |
459' by 63' by 26' 139.9m by 19.2m by 7.9m |
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Maximum speed |
16.5 knots |
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Complement |
404 |
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Armament |
1 5"/38
dual-purpose gun 4 3"/50 AA guns 12 20mm Oerlikon AA guns |
| Machinery |
1-shaft General Electric geared
turbine (6000 shp) 2 Combustion Engineering D-type boilers |
| Bunkerage |
1680 tons fuel oil 20,000 gallons (76,000 liters) diesel fuel for landing craft |
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Cargo |
393,160 cubic feet (11,133 m3) 4895 deadweight tons |
| Passengers |
174 officers and men |
| Modifications |
By the end of the war, the 3"/50s had been replaced by 4x2 40mm Bofors AA guns |
The Andromedas were
completed in 1943-45. They were Maritime Commission
standard C2-S-B1 hulls
armed and manned by Navy crews for landing cargo on the beach during
amphibious
assaults. They carried 1 LCP(L),
8 LCM(3), and
15-16 LCVP
landing craft for transporting their cargoes ashore. They were equipped
with a 12,000 gallon (45,000 liter) per day distilling plant and with 4
35-ton, 2 10-ton, and 4 5-ton booms.
| arrived 1943-7-6 | ||
| arrived 1943-8-31 | Conducted the first successful experiments in underway replenishment of general stores during the Iwo Jima campaign |
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| arrived 1943-10 | ||
| arrived 1943-12 | ||
| Arneb |
completed 1944-4-28 (Portland) | |
| Alshain |
arrived 1944-5-13 | |
| Capricornus |
completed 1944-5-31 (Portland) | |
| Algol |
completed 1944-7-21 (Portland) | |
| Chara |
arrived 1944-7-29 | |
| completed 1944-8-18 (Oakland) | ||
| Diphda |
arrived 1944-8-22 | |
| completed 1944-8-30 (Oakland) | ||
| completed 1944-9-11 (Oakland) | ||
| completed 1944-9-21 (Oakland) | ||
| completed 1944-9-30 (Oakland) | ||
| completed 1944-10-11 (Oakland) | ||
| arrived 1944-10-20 | ||
| arrived 1944-12 | ||
| Achernar |
arrived 1944-12-25 |
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| arrived 1945-1 | ||
| arrived 1945-1-3 | ||
| arrived 1945-1-10 | ||
| arrived 1945-3-7 | ||
| arrived 1945-3-18 | ||
| arrived 1945-5-15 | ||
| arrived 1945-5-22 | ||
| arrived 1945-5-25 |
References
NavSource.Org (accessed 2007-4-27)
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