USS Alcyone
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For other ships with the same name, see SS Mormacgull.
USS Alcyone (AKA-7) was an Arcturus-class attack cargo ship named after Alcyone, the brightest star in the star cluster Pleiades. She served as a commissioned ship for five years and one month.
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USS Alcyone (AK-7) | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Alcyone |
Namesake | Alcyone, the brightest star in the Pleiades cluster, in the constellation Taurus |
Builder | Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Chester, Pennsylvania |
Laid down | 12 January 1939, as SS Mormacgull |
Launched | 28 August 1939 |
Acquired | by purchase, 31 May 1941 |
Commissioned | 15 June 1941 |
Decommissioned | 23 July 1946 |
Renamed | USS Alcyone (AK-24), 3 June 1941 |
Reclassified | AKA-7 (attack cargo ship), 26 November 1942 |
Stricken | 15 August 1946 |
Honours and awards | 8 battle stars (World War II) |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Arcturus-class attack cargo ship |
Type | Type C2 ship |
Displacement | 14,225 long tons (14,453 t) full |
Length | 459 ft 1 in (139.93 m) |
Beam | 63 ft (19 m) |
Draft | 26 ft 5 in (8.05 m) |
Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
Complement | 399 |
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