USS Kopara
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USS Kopara (AK-62/AG-50) was a cargo motor ship that was built in Scotland in 1938, spent much of its five-decade career in New Zealand ownership, and seems to have been scrapped in the 1980s. Between 1942 and 1945, Kopara served in the United States Navy, delivering supplies in the Pacific War. After the war, the US Navy returned her to her New Zealand owners, with whom she traded until 1966. From then until the late 1980s she passed through a series of owners in Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, who changed her name to Sarang, Cherry Chepat and finally See Hai Hong I.
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Owner |
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Operator | 1942–45: US Navy |
Port of registry |
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Builder | Henry Robb Ltd, Leith |
Yard number | 288 |
Launched | 30 July 1938 |
Completed | September 1938 |
Acquired | by US Navy, 21 September 1942 |
Commissioned | by US Navy, 23 September 1942 |
Decommissioned | by US Navy, 12 January 1945 |
Identification |
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Fate | Scrapped in 1987 |
General characteristics | |
Type | cargo ship |
Tonnage | 679 GRT, 334 NRT |
Length | 193.1 ft (58.9 m) |
Beam | 35.8 ft (10.9 m) |
Draught | 18 ft 8 in (5.69 m) |
Depth | 11.6 ft (3.5 m) |
Decks | 1 |
Installed power | 250 NHP |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h) |
Armament | 4 × 40 mm Bofors guns |
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