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USS Knox (APA-46)
US Navy transport ship / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Knox.
USS Knox (APA-46) was a Bayfield-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. in 1947, she was sold into commercial service and was finally scrapped in 1971.
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Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Reclassified | AP-91 to APA-46, 1 February 1943 |
Launched | 17 July 1943 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. R. K. Forde |
Acquired | 30 September 1943 |
Commissioned | 30 September 1943 (ferry) |
Decommissioned | 14 October 1943 |
Refit | Conversion by Bethlehem Steel |
Commissioned | 4 March 1944 (full) |
Decommissioned | 14 March 1946 |
Stricken | 1 May 1946 |
Honors and awards | 5 battle stars, World War II |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | |
Displacement | 8,100 tons, 16,100 tons fully loaded |
Length | 492 ft (150 m) |
Beam | 69 ft 6 in (21.18 m) |
Draft | 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m) |
Propulsion | Westinghouse geared turbine, 2 x Foster Wheeler D-type boilers, single propeller, designed shaft horsepower 8,500 |
Speed | 18 knots |
Boats & landing craft carried | |
Capacity | 4,700 tons (175,000 cu. ft). |
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