USS Mindanao (ARG-3)
US Navy Luzon-class internal combustion engine repair ship in service 1943-1947 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Mindanao.
USS Mindanao (ARG-3) was a Luzon-class internal combustion engine repair ship in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1947. She was sunk as an artificial reef in 1980.
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USS Mindanao on 16 December 1943 | |
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Ordered | as a Type EC2-S-C1 hull, MCE hull 983[1] |
Builder | Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland |
Yard number | 2133[1] |
Laid down | 11 April 1943 |
Launched | 13 May 1943 |
Acquired | 20 May 1943 |
Commissioned | 6 November 1943 |
Decommissioned | 17 May 1947 |
Stricken | 1 September 1961 |
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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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