USS Cebu
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USS Cebu (ARG-6) was a Luzon-class internal combustion engine repair ship that saw service in the United States Navy during World War II. Named after Cebu, an island in the Philippines, it was the second ship of the Navy to bear this name.
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USS Cebu (ARG-6) in Chesapeake Bay off the Bethlehem Steel Key Highway Yard, Baltimore, 18 April 1944, one day after completing her conversion to an Internal Combustion Engine Repair Ship. The ship is painted in Camouflage Measure 31, Design 6Ax. | |
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Namesake | |
Ordered | as a Type EC2-S-C1 hull, MCE hull 1805[1] |
Builder | Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland |
Yard number | 2253[1] |
Laid down | 21 September 1943 |
Launched | 18 October 1943 |
Acquired | 27 October 1943 |
Commissioned | 15 April 1944 |
Decommissioned | 30 June 1947 |
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Honors and awards | 1 battle star (WWII) |
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General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | Luzon-class Internal Combustion Engine Repair Ship |
Type | Type EC2-S-C1 |
Displacement | |
Length | 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m) |
Beam | 56 ft 11 in (17.35 m) |
Draft | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
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Speed | 12.5 kn (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) (ship's trials) |
Complement | 31 officers, 552 enlisted |
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