USS New Kent
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USS New Kent (APA-217) was a Haskell-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1949 and from 1951 to 1954. She was scrapped in 1972.
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New Kent in 1949 | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | New Kent |
Namesake | New Kent County, Virginia |
Ordered | as a Type VC2-S-AP5 hull, MCE hull 565[1] |
Builder | Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond, California |
Yard number | 565[1] |
Laid down | 11 July 1944 |
Launched | 12 October 1944 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. W. J. Maher |
Commissioned | 22 November 1944 |
Decommissioned | 29 July 1949 |
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Honors and awards | 1 × battle star for World War II service |
Fate | Recommissioned by the Navy |
United States | |
Recommissioned | 10 October 1951 |
Decommissioned | 12 July 1954 |
Stricken | 1 October 1958 |
Fate | Scrapped 1972 |
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 | 80 officers, 1,475 enlister |
Complement | 56 officers, 480 enlisted |
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Service record | |
Part of: | TransRon 19 |
Operations: | Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto (1–7 April 1945) |
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