USS Frontier
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USS Frontier (AD-25) was one of four Klondike class destroyer tenders built at the tail end of World War II for the United States Navy.
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Name | USS Frontier |
Builder | Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, San Pedro, California |
Launched | 25 March 1945 |
Commissioned | 2 March 1946 |
Decommissioned | 28 June 1968 |
Stricken | 1 December 1972 |
Fate | Sold, 1 July 1974, scrapped April 1975 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Klondike-class destroyer tender |
Displacement |
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Length | 492 ft (150 m) |
Beam | 69 ft 8 in (21.23 m) |
Draft | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) |
Propulsion | Geared turbines, 8,500 shp (6,338 kW) |
Speed | 18.4 knots (34.1 km/h; 21.2 mph) |
Complement | 826 |
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Frontier was launched on 25 March 1945 by the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, San Pedro, California, sponsored by Mrs. George M. Ravenscroft, and commissioned 2 March 1946.