USS Basilan (AG-68)
USS Basilan (AG-68) underway in San Francisco Bay, 27 March 1945, after overhaul. |
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| Career (USA) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Basilan |
| Namesake: | The largest of the Basilan islands in the southern Philippines |
| Ordered: | as Internal Combustion Engine Repair Ship (ARG-12) |
| Builder: | Delta Shipbuilding Corporation, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Laid down: | 5 February 1944, as SS Jacques Phillipe Villere |
| Launched: | 21 March 1944 |
| Acquired: | by the Navy, 21 April 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 10 October 1944 as USS Basilan (AG-68) |
| Decommissioned: | 22 April 1946, at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii |
| Reclassified: | AG-68, date unknown |
| Refit: | Waterman Steamship Company, Mobile, Alabama |
| Struck: | 28 May 1947 |
| Fate: | sold, 12 June 1972, for scrapping |
| Notes: | type (EC-2-S-C1) hull, MCE hull 2460 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Basilan-class miscellaneous auxiliary |
| Displacement: | 5,371 tons |
| Tons burthen: | 14,200 tons |
| Length: | 442' |
| Beam: | 57' |
| Draft: | 23' |
| Propulsion: | reciprocating steam engine, single shaft, 1,950hp |
| Speed: | 13 knots |
| Complement: | 181 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount; four 40mm AA gun mounts; twelve single 20mm AA gun mounts |
USS Basilan (AG-68/ARG-12) was a Basilan-class miscellaneous auxiliary acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. The ship was designed as a combined barracks-stores-water distillation ship, but was later converted to an electronics repair ship. She spent her Navy career in the Pacific Ocean theatre of operations.
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