USS Abarenda (IX-131)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Abarenda.
The second USS Abarenda (IX-131) was a storage tanker, one of many miscellaneous-class Navy vessel crewed by the United States Coast Guard during World War II.
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SS Acme when she was inspected by the Twelfth Naval District in December 1917. | |
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Name | Acme |
Namesake | Acme Oil Company[1][2] |
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Builder | Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California |
Yard number | 125 |
Laid down | 1916 |
Launched | 29 April 1916 |
Commissioned | 22 June 1916 |
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Fate | Requisitioned by the WSA 3 November 1943 |
SS Acme at anchor, 19 August 1943, location unknown, shortly before being acquired by the USN. | |
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United States | |
Name | Abarenda |
Acquired | 26 February 1944 |
Commissioned | 18 April 1944 |
Decommissioned | 28 February 1946 |
Renamed | 3 November 1943 |
Stricken | 20 March 1946 |
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Fate | Scrapped at Shanghai 1948 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Emergency Fleet Corporation design 1047 tanker |
Type | Floating storage tanker |
Displacement | 19,410 long tons (19,720 t) |
Length | 435 ft (133 m) |
Beam | 56 ft (17 m) |
Draft | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 10.2 kn (18.9 km/h; 11.7 mph) |
Complement | 10 officer 110 enlisted |
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