USS General O. H. Ernst (AP-133)
| Career (U.S.) | |
|---|---|
| Namesake: | Oswald Herbert Ernst |
| Builder: | Kaiser Co., Inc. Richmond, California |
| Laid down: | 29 June 1942 |
| Launched: | 14 April 1943 |
| Acquired: | 31 March 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 22 April 1944 15 July 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 13 May 1944 15 August 1946 |
| In service: | USAT General O. H. Ernst, 1946 |
| Out of service: | date unknown |
| Renamed: | USAT General O. H. Ernst, 1946 SS Calmar, April 1964 |
| Fate: | scrapped 1980 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | General G. O. Squier-class transport ship |
| Displacement: | 9,950 tons (light), 17,250 tons (full) |
| Length: | 522 ft 10 in (159.36 m) |
| Beam: | 71 ft 6 in (21.79 m) |
| Draft: | 26 ft 6 in (8.10 m) |
| Propulsion: | single-screw steam turbine with 9,900 shp (7,400 kW) |
| Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 3,343 troops |
| Complement: | 426 (officers and enlisted) |
| Armament: | 4 × 5"/38 caliber guns 8 × 1.1"/75 AA guns 16 × 20 mm AA guns |
USS General O. H. Ernst (AP-133) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. She was named in honor of U.S. Army general Oswald Herbert Ernst. She was decommissioned in 1946 and transferred to the Army Transportation Service as USAT General O. H. Ernst. She was sold privately in 1964 and renamed SS Calmar, and was scrapped in 1980.
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