USS Wright (AV-1)

USS Wright (AV-1)


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

USS Wright (AZ-1) at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, April 1927
Career
Name: Wright
Namesake: Orville Wright
Builder: American International Shipbuilding Corporation, Hog Island, Pennsylvania
Yard number: 680
Laid down: 5 February 1919 as Skaneateles
Launched: 28 April 1920
Completed: 16 December 1921
Commissioned: 16 December 1921, as AZ-1
Decommissioned: 21 June 1946
Renamed: San Clemente (AG-79), 1 February 1945
Reclassified: AV-1 (Aircraft Tender), 2 December 1926
AG-79 (Miscellaneous Auxiliary), 1 October 1944
Struck: 1 July 1946
Honours and
awards:
2 battle stars (World War II)
Fate: Transferred to Maritime Commission, 21 September 1946
Sold for scrapping, 19 August 1948
General characteristics
Type: Seaplane tender
Displacement: 11,500 long tons (11,685 t) full load
Length: 448 ft (137 m)
Beam: 58 ft (18 m)
Draft: 23 ft (7.0 m)
Propulsion: 1 × General Electric turbine, 3,000 shp (2,237 kW)
1 shaft
Speed: 15.3 knots (28.3 km/h; 17.6 mph)
Complement: 228 officers and men
Armament: • 2 × 5"/38 caliber guns
• 2 × 3"/50 caliber guns
• 2 × machine guns
Aircraft carried: F5L and Curtiss NC-10 seaplanes

USS Wright (AZ-1/AV-1) was a one-of-a-kind auxiliary ship in the United States Navy, named for aviation pioneer Orville Wright.

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