USS Ostara
Cargo ship of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Ostara (AKA-33) was an Artemis-class attack cargo ship named after the asteroid 343 Ostara, which in turn was named after the Teutonic goddess of spring, described by Jacob Grimm in his Deutsche Mythologie as equivalent to the Anglo-Saxon Eostre. USS Ostara served as a commissioned ship for 13 months.
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Name | USS Ostara |
Namesake | The asteroid Ostara |
Builder | Walsh-Kaiser Company, Providence, Rhode Island |
Laid down | 13 October 1944 |
Launched | 21 December 1944 |
Commissioned | 31 January 1945 |
Decommissioned | 1 March 1946 |
Stricken | 26 June 1946 |
Fate | Transferred to the War Shipping Administration, 26 June 1946. Scrapped in 1965. |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Artemis-class attack cargo ship |
Type | S4–SE2–BE1 |
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Length | 426 ft (130 m) |
Beam | 58 ft (18 m) |
Draft | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
Complement | 303 officers and enlisted |
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Ostara (AKA-33) was laid down 13 October 1944 by Walsh-Kaiser Co., Inc., Providence, R.I. under a Maritime Commission Contract; launched 21 December 1944; sponsored by Ensign Rene Vandersloot, Navy Nurse; commissioned 31 January 1945.