USS Denebola (AD-12)
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USS Denebola (AD-12) underway.
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| Name: | USS Denebola |
| Builder: | Skinner and Eddy Corporation, Seattle |
| Launched: | 19 April 1919 as SS Edgewood |
| Completed: | May 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 28 November 1921 |
| Decommissioned: | 9 August 1924 |
| Recommissioned: | 18 January 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 April 1946 |
| Honours and awards: |
1 battle star (WWII) |
| Fate: | Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 1 July 1946 |
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| Type: | Altair-class destroyer tender |
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| Length: | 423 ft 9 in (129.16 m) |
| Beam: | 54 ft 3 in (16.54 m) |
| Draft: | 20 ft 7 in (6.27 m) |
| Propulsion: | Geared turbine, single propeller |
| Speed: | 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) |
| Complement: | 481 officers and enlisted |
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USS Denebola (AD-12) was an Altair-class destroyer tender named for Denebola, the second-brightest star in the constellation Leo.
Originally built in 1919 as SS Edgewood by Skinner and Eddy of Seattle, Washington, then transferred from the Shipping Board on 4 November 1921 and converted for naval use at Philadelphia Navy Yard. She was commissioned as USS Denebola (AD-12) on 28 November 1921 with Commander J. F. Daniels in command.
Denebola served on the Atlantic Coast until 21 November 1922 when she cleared Philadelphia for the Mediterranean and duty as tender and repair ship to the U.S. Naval Detachment in Turkish waters. She got underway from Constantinople 18 November 1923 and called at Bizerte and Tunis, Tunisia; Gibraltar; and the Azores on her way to New York, where she arrived 23 December. Denebola joined in winter maneuvers in the Caribbean in 1924. She was placed out of commission in reserve at Philadelphia on 9 August.
Except for the period 1931 to 1934 when she served as barracks ship at Norfolk for the crews of battleships undergoing modernization, Denebola remained out of commission, at Philadelphia until she was towed to Baltimore, Maryland in 1940. She was commissioned in ordinary there 18 January 1940 for overhaul and refit.
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