USS Vermilion (AKA-107)
_underway,_circa_in_the_1950s_(NH_107734).jpg)
Vermillion, circa in the 1950s
|
|
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States
|
|
| Name: | USS Vermilion |
| Namesake: | |
| Builder: | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina |
| Laid down: | 17 October 1944 |
| Launched: | 12 December 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 23 June 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 August 1949 |
| Recommissioned: | 16 October 1950 |
| Decommissioned: | 13 April 1971 |
| Struck: | 1 January 1977 |
| Motto: |
|
| Fate: | Sunk as artificial reef 24 August 1988 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Tolland-class attack cargo ship |
| Displacement: | 13,910 long tons (14,133 t) full |
| Length: | 489 ft 2 in (149.10 m) |
| Beam: | 63 ft (19 m) |
| Draft: | 26 ft 4 in (8.03 m) |
| Propulsion: | GE geared turbine drive, 1 propeller, 6,000 shp (4,474 kW) |
| Speed: | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
| Complement: | 425 |
| Armament: |
|
USS Vermilion (AKA-107/LKA-107), was a Tolland-class attack cargo ship of the United States Navy, named after a parish in southern Louisiana and a county in eastern Illinois. She served as a commissioned ship for 25 years and 9 months.
Tolland was laid down as a Type C2-S-AJ3 ship under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1700) on 17 October 1944 by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in Wilmington, North Carolina and launched on 12 December 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Rex Freeman. She was delivered to the Navy on 23 December 1944 to be completed as a Navy attack cargo ship at the Todd Shipyard in Brooklyn, New York. She was commissioned at Brooklyn on 23 June 1945 with the hull code AKA-107, Captain F. B. Eggers commanding.
Based at Norfolk, Virginia, the Vermilion was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet and spent over a year in shakedown and refresher training. In November 1946, she cruised to South American waters before assuming duty upon her return to Norfolk. For the next three years she took on standard Atlantic fleet operations, including midshipman training cruises, amphibious exercises, type training and reserve training cruises. She was then decommissioned on 26 August 1949 and berthed with the Reserve Fleet Group at Orange, Texas.
...
Wikipedia