USS Cavallaro
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USS Cavallaro (DE-712/APD-128) was a Crosley-class high speed transport of the United States Navy.
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United States | |
Name | USS Cavallaro |
Namesake | Salvatore John Cavallaro |
Ordered | 1942 |
Builder | Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan |
Laid down | 28 March 1944 |
Launched | 15 June 1944 |
Commissioned | 13 March 1945 |
Decommissioned | 17 May 1946 |
Recommissioned | 4 September 1953 |
Decommissioned | 15 October 1959 |
Stricken | 15 November 1974 |
Fate | Transferred to South Korea, 15 October 1959 |
South Korea | |
Name | ROKS Kyung-Nam (APD-81) |
Acquired | 15 October 1959 |
Decommissioned | 29 December 2000 |
Fate | Sunk as a target, 2003 |
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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