USS Great Sitkin (AE-17)
USS Great Sitkin (AE-17) was a Mount Hood class ammunition ship, which served in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1973.[1] USS Great Sitkin supported USN operations in several major theatres, including the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, Cuban Missile Blockade, Guantanamo Bay, and the Vietnam War. In the tradition of naming ammunition ships after volcanos, AE-17 was named after the Great Sitkin Volcano in Alaska.
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Name: | USS Great Sitkin |
Builder: | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company |
Launched: | 20 January 1945 |
Commissioned: | 11 August 1945 |
Struck: | 2 July 1973 |
Motto: | Always Ready |
Honors and awards: | 2 stars for Vietnam War service |
Fate: | scrapped 1974 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Mount Hood class ammunition ship |
Displacement: | 15,295 t.(fl) |
Length: | 459 feet 2 inches |
Beam: | 63 feet |
Draught: | 28 ft 3 in (8.6 m) |
Draft: | 28 feet 3 inches |
Propulsion: |
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Speed: | 16 knots |
Capacity: | 7,700 long tons (7,800 t) deadweight |
Complement: | 267 Officers and Enlisted |
Armament: |
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References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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