USS Beaver (AS-5)
USS Beaver (AS-5) at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, in 1920. |
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Beaver |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
| Acquired: | 1 July 1918 from the San Francisco & Portland Steamship Co. |
| Commissioned: | 1 October 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 17 July 1946 |
| Struck: | 15 August 1946 |
| Fate: | sold 28 August 1950 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Submarine tender |
| Displacement: | 5,970 long tons (6,070 t) |
| Length: | 380 ft (120 m) |
| Beam: | 47 ft (14 m) |
| Draft: | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
| Speed: | 16.5 kn (19.0 mph; 30.6 km/h) |
| Complement: | 373 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 × 5 in (130 mm) guns, 2 × 3 in (76 mm) guns, 2 × 1-pounders, 2 × machine gun |
USS Beaver (AS-5) — a steel-hulled, single-screw, freight and passenger steamer built in 1910 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding Co. for the Union Pacific Railroad Company — was purchased from the San Francisco & Portland Steamship Co. on 1 July 1918; given the classification Id. No. 2302; converted to a submarine tender at the Mare Island Navy Yard; and commissioned there on 1 October 1918, Lieutenant Commander James A. Logan in command.
To prepare her to serve as mobile repair and maintenance facility for submarine squadrons, the yard workers installed a machine shop, electrical plant, battery shop, and refrigerator units inside the ship. Since her duties included providing boat services to submarines, the tender carried four motor launches, three motor boats, and five smaller craft.
Read more about USS Beaver (AS-5): Transfer To Pacific and 1920's, 1930's, World War II in The Atlantic, World War II Pacific Service and Fate
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