USS Alchiba (AKA-6)
| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Alchiba |
| Namesake: | Alchiba |
| Builder: | Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Chester, Pennsylvania |
| Laid down: | 15 August 1938, as SS Mormacdove |
| Launched: | 6 July 1939 |
| Acquired: | 2 June 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 15 June 1941 |
| Decommissioned: | 14 January 1946 |
| Renamed: | USS Alchiba (AK-23), 3 June 1941 |
| Reclassified: | AKA-6 (attack cargo ship), 1 February 1943 |
| Struck: | 25 February 1946 |
| Honours and awards: |
3 battle stars & Presidential Unit Citation (World War II) |
| Fate: | Sold into merchant service, 1948 Scrapped, 1973 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Arcturus-class attack cargo ship |
| Type: | Type C2 ship |
| Displacement: | 6,761 long tons (6,869 t) light |
| Length: | 459 ft 2 in (139.95 m) |
| Beam: | 63 ft (19 m) |
| Draft: | 26 ft 4 in (8.03 m) |
| Speed: | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
| Complement: | 247 |
| Armament: | • 1 × 5"/38 caliber gun mount • 4 × twin 40 mm gun mounts • 16 × 20 mm gun mounts |
USS Alchiba (AKA-6) was an Arcturus-class attack cargo ship of the United States Navy, named after Alchiba, a star in the Constellation Corvus. She served as a commissioned ship for 4 years and 7 months.
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