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|  ONI 222 |
| Tonnage |
7,630 tons light displacement 16,400 tons fully loaded |
| Dimensions | 507' by 56' by 29'9" 154.5m by 17.1m by 9.1m |
| Maximum speed | 16.5 knots |
| Complement | 360 |
| Armament | 1 5"/38 dual-purpose
gun 4x1 3"/50 dual-purpose guns 8 0.50 machine guns |
| Machinery |
1-shaft geared turbine (9500 shp) 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers |
| Bunkerage |
1810 tons |
| Passengers |
1,278 |
| Cargo |
150,000 cubic feet (4250 cubic
meters) or 2900 tons |
The Heywoods were 11,800-ton freighters
completed shortly after the First World War
for the
United States Shipping Board. They were purchased by Baltimore Mail
Line in 1931 and converted to passenger ships. Their hulls were
lengthened and they were given more powerful machinery that increased
their speed to better than 16 knots.
The ships were taken over by the Navy in late 1940
for use as troop transports and equipped with four sets of triple
davits and fourteen landing craft.
| George F. Elliott
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Arrived
1942-5 |
Sunk by aircraft 1942-8-8 off
Guadalcanal |
| Heywood |
Arrived 1942-5 |
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| Fuller |
Arrived 1942-5 |
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| William P. Biddle |
Arrived
1943-1-3 |
References
NavSource.org (accessed 2008-3-1)
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