USS Armadillo
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USS Armadillo (IX-111), the lead ship of her class of tanker was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the armadillo, an insect-eating mammal which has an armorlike shell encasing its back and head.
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Ordered | as a Type T1-S-C3 hull, MCE hull 1900[1] |
Builder | California Shipbuilding Corporation, Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California |
Yard number | T21[1] |
Way number | 3[1] |
Laid down | 24 September 1943 |
Launched | 26 October 1943 |
Commissioned | 18 November 1943 |
Decommissioned | 29 May 1946 |
Stricken | 19 June 1946 |
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Honors and awards | 1 × battle star |
Fate | returned to MARCOM, 29 May 1946, laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall, Virginia. Sold, 26 January 1948 , withdrawn, 3 February 1948 |
United States | |
Name | Dean H. |
Owner | Windear Navigation Co |
Acquired | 14 April 1948 |
Fate | Sold, November 1954 |
Liberia | |
Name | Dean H. |
Acquired | November 1954 |
Refit | 1955, to a dry cargo ship |
Fate | Sold, 2 March 1959 |
United States | |
Name | Chris H. |
Owner | Winco Tankers Inc. |
Acquired | 2 March 1959 |
Fate | Exchanged to the Maritime Administration (MARAD), 26 December 1962, returned 7 February 1963 |
United States | |
Name | Dean H. |
Owner | MARAD |
Acquired | 7 February 1963 |
Fate | Returned to MARCOM, 7 February 1963, sold for scrapping, 22 February 1972, withdrawn from fleet, 10 March 1972 |
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Class and type | Armadillo class tanker |
Type | Type T1-S-C3 |
Displacement | 14,500 long tons (14,700 t) |
Length | 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m) |
Beam | 56 ft 11 in (17.35 m) |
Draught | 28 ft 4 in (8.64 m) |
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Speed | 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
Complement | 10 officers 69 enlisted |
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