USS Beltrami (AK-162)
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USS Beltrami (AK-162) at anchor, on the Whangpoo River, off Shanghai, China, circa 18 November to 26 January 1946
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| Name: | Beltrami |
| Namesake: | Beltrami County, Minnesota |
| Ordered: | as type (C1-M-AV1) hull, MC hull 2107 |
| Builder: | Kaiser Shipbuilding Co., Richmond, California |
| Yard number: | 64 |
| Laid down: | 18 July 1944 |
| Launched: | 26 September 1944 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Marvin A. Thrash |
| Acquired: | 4 January 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 4 January 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 November 1955 |
| Struck: | 1 April 1960 |
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| Fate: | sold for scrapping, 28 July 1960, to Hugo Neu Steel Products |
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| Class and type: | Alamosa-class cargo ship |
| Type: | C1-M-AV1 |
| Tonnage: | 5,032 long tons deadweight (DWT) |
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| Length: | 388 ft 8 in (118.47 m) |
| Beam: | 50 ft (15 m) |
| Draft: | 21 ft 1 in (6.43 m) |
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| Propulsion: | 1 × propeller |
| Speed: | 11.5 kn (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
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USS Beltrami (AK-162) was an Alamosa-class cargo ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II. She was responsible for delivering troops, goods and equipment to locations in the war zone.
Beltrami was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract, MC hull 2107, on 18 July 1944 by Kaiser Cargo, at Richmond, California; launched on 26 September 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Marvin A. Thrash; and acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 4 January 1945, Lieutenant Gerald W. Rahill, USNR, in command.
After fitting out at San Francisco, California, Beltrami got underway on 21 January for shakedown operations out of San Pedro, California. There, her crew members practiced loading and unloading cargo and familiarized themselves with Beltrami's diesel engines. On 8 February, she loaded frozen food and steamed north to Longview, Washington. There, the cargo ship received a load of lumber from the Weyerhauser Co. before sailing west to Hawaii, arriving in Pearl Harbor on 1 March. Over the next two weeks, the crew unloaded lumber at Port Allen, Kauai, and Nawiliwili Bay, Kauai, before returning to Pearl Harbor.
Assigned to the Service Force, Pacific Fleet, Beltrami sailed for the Solomon Islands on 21 March. Arriving at Guadalcanal on 3 April, the cargo ship discharged her supplies and immediately began loading for a supply run to the Admiralty Islands. Underway from the Solomons on the 8th, she arrived at Manus Island on 12 April. After unloading her cargo—Manus was a support base for the ongoing operations in the Philippines and the Ryukyus -- Beltrami sailed to Ulithi, Caroline Islands, on the 25th, anchoring there four days later.
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