USS Weiss (APD-135)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Weiss.
The USS Weiss (APD-135/LPR-135) was a Crosley-class high speed transport in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1970, with two short periods spent in reserve. She was finally scrapped in 1976.
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Name | USS Weiss |
Namesake | Carl W. Weiss |
Ordered | 1942 |
Builder | Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan |
Laid down | 14 October 1944 |
Launched | 17 February 1945 |
Commissioned | 7 July 1945 |
Decommissioned | 2 May 1949 |
Recommissioned | 14 October 1950 |
Decommissioned | 2 March 1958 |
Recommissioned | 20 November 1961 |
Decommissioned | January 1970 |
Reclassified | LPR-135, 1 January 1969 |
Stricken | 15 September 1974 |
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Fate | Sold for scrap, 24 June 1976 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Crosley-class high speed transport |
Displacement | 1,450 long tons (1,473 t) |
Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
Beam | 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m) |
Draft | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
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Speed | 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) |
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Boats & landing craft carried | 4 × LCVPs |
Troops | 162 troops |
Complement | 204 (12 officers, 192 enlisted) |
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