USS Pollux (AKS-4)
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| Name: | USS Pollux |
| Namesake: | Pollux, the southern of two bright stars in the constellation Gemini, twin star of Castor |
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| Laid down: | 2 October 1941 |
| Launched: | 5 February 1942 |
| Acquired: | 23 March 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 27 April 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 April 1950 |
| In service: | 5 August 1950 |
| Out of service: | 31 December 1968 |
| Struck: | 1 January 1969 |
| Fate: | sold for scrapping, 2 September 1969 |
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| Displacement: | 7,350 t.(lt) 13,910 t.(fl) |
| Length: | 459 ft 2 in (139.95 m) |
| Beam: | 63 ft (19 m) |
| Draught: | 26 ft 5 in (8.05 m) |
| Propulsion: | steam turbine, single shaft, 6,000shp |
| Speed: | 16 kts. |
| Complement: | 315 |
| Armament: | one 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, four 3"/50 gun mounts |
USS Pollux (AKS-4) was a Castor-class general stores issue ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II. She was responsible for delivering and disbursing goods and equipment to locations in the war zone.
The third ship to be named Pollux by the Navy, AKS–4 was laid down by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearney, New Jersey as SS Nancy Lykes for Lykes Brothers Steamship Company, 2 October 1941; launched 5 February 1942; acquired by the Navy 19 March; transferred to the Robbins Dry Dock and Repair Co., Brooklyn, New York, for conversion; and commissioned 27 April 1942; Capt. E. J. Kidder in command.
After a shakedown cruise, Pollux operated as a unit of the Commander, Service Force, Atlantic. She supplied forces afloat and Allied bases at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Trinidad and Jamaica, West Indies; Colón, Panama Canal Zone; Recife and Bahia, Brazil; and Bermuda. She operated out of the U.S. East Coast ports of New York City, Bayonne, New Jersey, Baltimore, Maryland, and Norfolk, Virginia.
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