USS Argonne (AS-10)

USS Argonne (AS-10)


For other ships of the same name, see USS Argonne.

USS Argonne (AS-10), c. 1930s
Career (United States)
Name: Argonne
Builder: American International Shipbuilding
Yard number: 673
Laid down: 22 November 1918 as Sinsinawa
Launched: 24 February 1920
Completed: August 1920
Acquired: 5 November 1921
Commissioned: 8 November 1921
Decommissioned: 15 July 1946
Reclassified: From AP-4 to AS-10, 1 July 1924; to AG-31, 25 July 1940
Struck: 28 August 1946
Fate: Sold for scrap, 14 August 1950
General characteristics
Type: Design 1024 ship
Displacement: 8,400 tons
Length: 448 ft (137 m)
Beam: 68 ft 6 in (20.88 m)
Draft: 23 ft 9 in (7.24 m)
Speed: 15.5 knots
Complement: 249; AG: 398
Armament: 4 x 5" guns
4 x 3" guns
2 x 6-pdrs

USS Argonne (AP-4/AS-10/AG-31) was originally completed in 1920 under a United States Shipping Board (USSB) contract by the International Shipbuilding Corp., Hog Island, Pa., and transferred to the Navy on 3 November 1921 by the War Department. Accepted preliminarily by the Navy on that date, she was commissioned as Argonne on 8 November 1921 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Lt. Comdr. Theodore H. Winters in command.

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