USS Rolette (AKA-99)
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| Name: | USS Rolette |
| Namesake: | Rolette County, North Dakota |
| Builder: | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey |
| Laid down: | 2 December 1944 |
| Launched: | 11 March 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 27 April 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | late 1945 |
| Struck: | 23 April 1947 |
| Reinstated: | 13 August 1951 |
| Recommissioned: | 23 February 1952 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 May 1956 |
| Struck: | 1 July 1960 |
| Fate: | Unknown |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Andromeda-class attack cargo ship |
| Type: | Type C2-S-B1 |
| Displacement: | 14,200 long tons (14,428 t) full load |
| Length: | 459 ft 2 in (139.95 m) |
| Beam: | 63 ft (19 m) |
| Draft: | 26 ft 4 in (8.03 m) |
| Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
| Complement: | 425 |
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USS Rolette (AKA-99) was an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship named after a county in North Dakota.
Attack cargo ship Rolette was laid down on 2 December 1944 by Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Kearny, NJ, for the Maritime Commission; launched on 11 March 1945, sponsored by Mrs. William U. Kirsch, acquired by the Navy on loan-charter on 26 April 1945, and commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on 27 April 1945, Comdr. Lamar M. Wise in command.
Rolette proceeded to Chesapeake Bay in May 1945, two days after Germany surrendered. She loaded her first cargo on the 30th and sailed for Pearl Harbor, where she unloaded and took on construction material for Guinan, Samar Island, Philippine Islands. As the crew was discharging her cargo there in mid-August, they heard of the Japanese surrender. Rolette was ordered to operate with the amphibious ships carrying the Army Occupation Forces to Japan from the Philippines. During September and October she debarked troops at Tokyo, Hokkaidō, and Hakodate.
The transport returned to the United States toward the close of 1945, and decommissioned at San Francisco, where she was a unit of the Reserve Fleet until struck from the Navy List on 23 April 1947.
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