USS Cheleb
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USS Cheleb (AK-138) was a Crater-class cargo ship in the service of the US Navy in World War II. It was the only ship of the Navy to have borne this name. It is named after Cheleb, a star in the northern hemisphere constellation of Ophiuchus.
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Broadside view of USS Cheleb (AK-138), off San Francisco, California, 3 January 1944. | |
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United States | |
Name | Lyman J. Gage |
Namesake | Lyman J. Gage |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | Waterman Steamship Agency, Ltd.[1] |
Ordered | as a Type EC2-S-C1 hull, MCE hull 520[2] |
Builder | Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond, California |
Yard number | 520[2] |
Way number | 5[2] |
Laid down | 29 December 1942 |
Launched | 29 January 1943 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. E. E. Carter |
In service | 6 February 1943 |
Fate | transferred to the US Navy, 3 December 1943 |
United States | |
Name | Cheleb |
Namesake | The star Cheleb |
Acquired | 3 December 1943 |
Commissioned | 1 January 1944 |
Decommissioned | 25 July 1946 |
Stricken | 22 May 1947 |
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Fate | Sold for scrapping, 27 March 1978, removed 19 April 1978 |
General characteristics [3] | |
Class and type | Crater-class cargo ship |
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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) |
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Complement | 252 |
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