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USS Deimos (AK-78)
Cargo ship of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Deimos.
USS Deimos (AK-78) was a Crater-class cargo ship in the service of US Navy in World War II. It was the first ship of the Navy to have borne the name Deimos, after one of the moons of Mars.
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![]() Broadside view of USS Deimos (AK-78) underway off San Francisco, 26 January 1943. | |
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Namesake |
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Ordered | as a Type EC2-S-C1 hull, MCE hull 513[1] |
Builder | Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond, California |
Cost | $1,089,087[2] |
Yard number | 513[1] |
Way number | 5[1] |
Laid down | 27 November 1942 |
Launched | 28 December 1942 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Marie Moyer |
Acquired | 7 January 1943 |
Commissioned | 23 January 1943 |
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Honors and awards | 1 × battle star |
Fate | Torpedoed by Ro-103 and scuttled, 23 June 1943 |
General characteristics [3] | |
Class and type | Crater-class cargo ship |
Displacement |
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Length | 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m) |
Beam | 56 ft 11 in (17.35 m) |
Draft | 28 ft 4 in (8.64 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 12.5 kn (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
Capacity |
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Complement | 210 |
Armament |
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