USS Mifflin
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USS Mifflin (APA-207) was a Haskell-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1975.
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Mifflin in 1945-46 | |
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United States | |
Name | Mifflin |
Namesake | Mifflin County, Pennsylvania |
Ordered | as a Type VC2-S-AP5 hull, MCE hull 555[1] |
Builder | Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond, California |
Yard number | 555[1] |
Laid down | 15 May 1944 |
Launched | 7 August 1944 |
Sponsored by | Alma De Bretteville Spreckles |
Commissioned | 11 October 1944 |
Decommissioned | 5 July 1946 |
Stricken | 1 October 1958 |
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Honors and awards | 2 × battle stars for World War II service |
Fate | Sold for non-transportation use (NTU), 17 July 1975, delivered, 6 August 1975 |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | Haskell-class attack transport |
Type | Type VC2-S-AP5 |
Displacement | |
Length | 455 ft (139 m) |
Beam | 62 ft (19 m) |
Draft | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 17.7 kn (32.8 km/h; 20.4 mph) |
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Troops | 87 officers, 1,475 enlisted |
Complement | 56 officers, 480 enlisted |
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Service record | |
Part of: | TransRon 15 |
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