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Mare Island Shipyard #5595-43. Via NavSource.org
| Tonnage | 5782 tons light 21,880 tons fully loaded |
| Dimensions | 523'6" by 68' by 30'10" 159.56m by 20.73m by 9.40m |
| Maximum speed | 15 knots |
| Complement | 267 |
| Armament | 1 5"/38
dual-purpose gun 4 3"/50 dual-purpose guns 4x2 40mm Bofors AA guns 4x2 20mm Oerlikon AA guns |
| Machinery |
1-shaft turboelectric (10,000
shp) 2 boilers |
| Cargo |
140,000 barrels |
The Escambias were Maritime Commission T2-SE-A2
tankers built for the Navy as fleet
oilers. They differed from the Suamicos chiefly in having
somewhat more powerful turboelectric drive: The supply of the less
powerful drive used on the Suamicos
had become a production bottleneck, but there was excess production
capacity at General Electric for the more powerful drive.
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Completed 1943-10-28 (Sausalito) |
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Completed 1943-12-4 (Sausalito) |
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| Cahaba |
Completed 1944-1-14 (Sausalito) |
| Mascoma |
Completed 1944-2-3 (Sausalito) |
| Sebec |
Completed 1944-3-29 (Portland) |
| Tomahawk
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Completed 1944-4-16 (Portland) |
| Anacostia |
Completed 1945-2-25 (Sausalito) |
| Caney |
Completed 1945-3-25 (Sausalito) |
References
Navsource.org
(accessed 2008-7-4)
Wildenberg (1996)
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