USS Willoughby (AGP-9)
USS Willoughby (AGP-9) on 24 June 1944, six days after commissioning |
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Career (United States) | |
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Name: | USS Willoughby |
Namesake: | Willoughby Bay, an estuary of Hampton Roads in Virginia |
Builder: | Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton, Washington |
Laid down: | 15 March 1943 |
Launched: | 21 August 1943 |
Sponsored by: | Mrs. D. R. Lee |
Commissioned: | 18 June 1944 |
Decommissioned: | 26 June 1946 |
Reclassified: | From seaplane tender, AVP-57, to motor torpedo boat tender, AGP-9, on 11 May 1943 |
Struck: | 19 July 1946 |
Honors and awards: |
Three battle stars for her World War II service |
Fate: | Transferred to United States Coast Guard 27 May 1946 |
Notes: | Served in U.S. Coast Guard as USCGC Gresham (WAVP-387), later WHEC-387, later WAGW-387, 26 June 1946-25 April 1973 Sold for scrapping 25 October 1973 |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Barnegat-class seaplane tender, converted during construction into a motor torpedo boat tender |
Displacement: | 1,766 tons (light) 2,592 tons (full load) |
Length: | 310 ft 9 in (94.72 m) |
Beam: | 41 ft 1 in (12.52 m) |
Draft: | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
Installed power: | 6,000 horsepower (4.48 megawatts) |
Propulsion: | Diesel engine, two shafts |
Speed: | 18.2 knots |
Complement: | 246 |
Sensors and processing systems: |
Radar; sonar |
Armament: | 2 x 5-inch (127-millimeter) gun 8 x 40-millimeter antiaircraft guns 8 x 20-millimeter antiaircraft guns 2 x depth charge tracks |
The second USS Willoughby (AGP-9) was a motor torpedo boat tender that served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946.
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