USS Vega (AK-17)
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| Namesake: | Vega |
| Builder: | American International Shipbuilding, Hog Island, Pennsylvania |
| Laid down: | 8 July 1918, as SS Lebanon |
| Launched: | 18 July 1919 |
| Acquired: | 2 December 1921 |
| Commissioned: | 21 December 1921 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 January 1946 |
| Struck: | 12 March 1946 |
| Honors and awards: |
4 battle stars (World War II) |
| Fate: | sold by the Maritime Commission, 6 August 1946, for scrapping to National Metals and Steel Corp. |
| Status: | fate unknown |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Sirius-class cargo ship |
| Type: | Design 1022 ship |
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| Length: | 401 ft (122 m) |
| Beam: | 54 ft 2 in (16.51 m) |
| Draft: | 24 ft 5 in (7.44 m) |
| Installed power: | 2,500 shp (1,900 kW) |
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| Speed: | 11.1 kn (12.8 mph; 20.6 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 5,100 DWT |
| Complement: | 36 officers 413 enlisted |
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USS Vega (AK-17), was a Sirius-class cargo ship of the United States Navy, originally the Lebanon — a single-screw, steel-hulled Type 1022 freighter, built under a United States Shipping Board contract at Hog Island, Pennsylvania, by the American International Shipbuilding Co. Laid down on 8 July 1918, the ship was launched on 18 July 1919. Acquired by the Navy on 2 December 1921, she was renamed Vega and given the classification of AK-17. She fitted out for Navy service, and was commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on 21 December 1921, Lt. William H. Newman, USNRF, in command.
Assigned to the Naval Transportation Service, Vega served the Navy from Atlantic to Pacific on cargo runs which included calls at both east- and west-coast ports, as well as visits to the Far East and the Caribbean. During the first three years of her naval service, Vega completed six round-trip voyages from San Francisco to Asiatic waters before returning home in October 1924.
In successive summers from 1925 to 1928, the cargo vessel operated between Seattle, Washington, and Alaskan ports, carrying supplies and stores to naval radio stations at St. Paul and Dutch Harbor. In addition, Vega and sister ship Sirius (AK-15) carried general freight, heavy guns, and ordnance parts in support of Marine peacekeeping activities in Nicaragua. Among Vega's cruises were voyages in 1928 carrying supplies for the Bureau of Fisheries, Commerce Department, to seal rookeries on Pribilof and other Alaskan islands. She returned with seal skins garnered during supervised killings.
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