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.

USS Great Sitkin (AE-17)
History
United States
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:
  • 1 General Electric geared turbine engine
  • 2 Combustion Engineering "header-type" boilers, 450psi 750°
  • 2 General Electric Main Reduction Gears
  • 3 300Kw 120V/240V D.C. Ship's Service Generators
  • 1 propeller, 6,000shp
Speed: 16 knots
Capacity: 7,700 long tons (7,800 t) deadweight
Complement: 267 Officers and Enlisted
Armament:
  • 1 single 5"/38 cal gun mount
  • 4 single 3"/50 cal gun mounts
  • 2 twin 40mm AA gun mounts
  • 8 twin 20mm AA gun mounts

References
  1. http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/05/0517.htm
  2. https://fas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/NavalAccidents1945-1988.pdf
  3. Excerpts from log of USS Great Sitkin
  4. http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/05/0517.htm
  5. http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/05/0517.htm


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