USS Gosselin
Crosley-class high speed transport of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS Gosselin (APD-126) was a Crosley-class high speed transport of the United States Navy, in service from 1944 to 1949. She was sold for scrap in 1965.
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United States | |
Name | USS Gosselin |
Namesake | Edward W. Gosselin |
Ordered | 1942 |
Builder | Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan |
Laid down | 1944 |
Launched | 17 February 1944 |
Commissioned | 31 December 1944 |
Decommissioned | 11 July 1949 |
Stricken | 1 April 1964 |
Honors and awards | 1 battle star (World War II) |
Fate | Sold for scrap 23 March 1965 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Rudderow-class destroyer escort / 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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