USS Walter X. Young (APD-131)
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USS Walter X. Young (DE-715/APD-131) was a ship of the United States Navy, named for Lieutenant Walter X. Young (1918–1942), an officer of the United States Marine Corps who was killed in action during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
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Name | USS Walter X. Young |
Namesake | Walter X. Young |
Ordered | 1942 |
Builder | Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan |
Laid down | 27 May 1944 |
Launched | 30 September 1944 |
Commissioned | 1 May 1945 |
Decommissioned | 2 July 1946 |
Stricken | 1 May 1962 |
Fate | Sunk in missile-firing tests, 11 April 1967 |
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Class and type | Crosley-class high speed transport |
Displacement | 1,450 long tons (1,473 t) |
Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
Beam | 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m) |
Draft | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
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Speed | 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) |
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Boats & landing craft carried | 4 × LCVPs |
Troops | 162 troops |
Complement | 204 (12 officers, 192 enlisted) |
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Originally laid down on 27 May 1944 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan, as a Rudderow-class destroyer escort, DE-715, Young was reclassified and redesignated as a Crosley-class high speed transport, APD-131 on 15 July 1944. The ship was launched on 30 September 1944, sponsored by Mrs. John J. McGeeney; and commissioned on 1 May 1945.