USS Alhena (AKA-9)
USS Alhena (AKA-9) |
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Alhena |
| Namesake: | Alhena |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, Maryland |
| Laid down: | 19 June 1940 |
| Launched: | 18 January 1941 |
| Acquired: | 31 May 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 15 June 1941 |
| Decommissioned: | 22 May 1946 |
| Reclassified: | AKA-9, 26 November 1942 |
| Struck: | 15 August 1946 |
| Honors and awards: |
5 battle stars (World War II) |
| Fate: | Sold into merchant service, October 1947 Scrapped, 1971 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Type C2 ship |
| Displacement: | 15,080 long tons (15,322 t) |
| Length: | 479 ft 8 in (146.20 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20 m) |
| Draft: | 27 ft 1 in (8.26 m) |
| Speed: | 16.6 knots (30.7 km/h; 19.1 mph) |
| Complement: | 446 |
| Armament: | 1 × 5"/38 caliber gun mount |
USS Alhena (AKA-9) was an attack cargo ship named after Alhena, a star in the constellation Gemini. She served as a commissioned ship for 5 years and 4 months.
Laid down as Robin Kettering under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 74) on 19 June 1940 at Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, Maryland, by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation; launched on 18 January 1941; sponsored by Mrs. William Sanford Lewis; purchased by the Navy on 31 May 1941 from the Robin Line of the Seas Shipping Co., Inc., of New York City; commissioned as Alhena (AK-26) at Hoboken, N.J., on 15 June 1941, Comdr. Charles B. Hunt in command.
Read more about USS Alhena (AKA-9): Service History