USS Crux
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USS Crux (AK-115) was a Crater-class cargo ship, converted from a Liberty Ship, commissioned by the US Navy for service in World War II. She was first named after Peter Stuyvesant, a Dutch politician that served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664. She was renamed and commissioned after Crux, a constellation centered on four stars in the southern sky in a bright portion of the Milky Way. She was responsible for delivering troops, goods and equipment to locations in the war zone.
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USS Crux (AK-115) | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Peter Stuyvesant |
Namesake | Peter Stuyvesant |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Ordered | as a type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 1212 |
Awarded | 4 March 1942 |
Builder | St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida[1] |
Cost | $1,412,652 |
Yard number | 20 |
Way number | 2 |
Laid down | 27 September 1943 |
Launched | 16 November 1943 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Frank D. Arthur |
Completed | 27 November 1943 |
Identification | |
Fate | Transferred to US Navy, 27 November 1943 |
United States | |
Name | Crux |
Namesake | The constellation Crux |
Acquired | 27 November 1943 |
Commissioned | 17 March 1944 |
Decommissioned | 31 January 1946 |
Stricken | 25 February 1946 |
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Fate | Sold for scrapping, 30 November 1961, removed from fleet, 19 December 1961 |
Notes | Name reverted to Peter Stuyvesant when laid up in Reserve Fleet |
General characteristics [3] | |
Class and type | Crater-class cargo ship |
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Length | 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m) |
Beam | 56 ft 11 in (17.35 m) |
Draft | 28 ft 4 in (8.64 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 12.5 kn (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
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Complement | 206 |
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