USS Wyandot (AKA-92)
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| Name: | USS Wyandot |
| Namesake: | Wyandot County |
| Builder: | Moore Dry Dock Company, Oakland, California |
| Laid down: | 6 May 1944 |
| Launched: | 28 June 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 30 September 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 July 1959 |
| Recommissioned: | November 1961 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 October 1975 |
| Reclassified: | T-AKA-92, March 1963 |
| Honours and awards: |
1 battle star (World War II) |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 5 November 1987 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Andromeda-class attack cargo ship |
| Type: | Type C2-S-B1 |
| Displacement: | 13,910 long tons (14,133 t) full |
| Length: | 459 ft 2 in (139.95 m) |
| Beam: | 63 ft (19 m) |
| Draft: | 26 ft 4 in (8.03 m) |
| Speed: | 18.6 knots (34.4 km/h; 21.4 mph) |
| Complement: | 368 |
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USS Wyandot (AKA-92) was an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship named after Wyandot County, Ohio. She served as a commissioned ship for 20 years and 1 month.
Wyandot (AKA-92) was laid down on 6 May 1944 under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1192) at Oakland, California, by the Moore Dry Dock Co.; launched on 28 June 1944, acquired by the Navy and simultaneously commissioned on 30 September 1944, Comdr. E. G. Howard in command.
Following her shakedown, Wyandot departed San Francisco on 25 November 1944, bound for the Hawaiian Islands. She made port at Pearl Harbor on 2 December and, after loading cargo earmarked for the Marshalls and Marianas, headed for Eniwetok and Guam. After delivering her cargo to those western Pacific bases, the attack cargo ship returned to the Hawaiian Islands.
Wyandot departed Pearl Harbor on 26 January 1945 and proceeded thence via Eniwetok to Tacloban where she joined the forces massing for the assault on Okinawa. Assigned to a support role with the amphibious forces, Wyandot — partially unloaded — was returning from a night retirement alert about 0400 on 29 March when a Japanese horizontal bomber, probably on a night heckler mission, came in off Wyandot's starboard quarter and dropped a pair of bombs, one of which hit close aboard the ship's starboard quarter, sprinkling her stern with what appeared to be picric acid.
The second bomb plunged into the water near the attack cargo ship's starboard side and scored an underwater hit, making two large cracks in her hull. The two forward holds and the forward magazine flooded quickly, and Wyandot listed slightly to starboard. Putting the remainder of her landing craft and boats in the water, the vessel painfully made her way to an advanced repair base, down by the bow and steaming slowly, but still afloat.
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