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USS AkutanUnited States
NameUSS Akutan (AE-13)
NamesakeAkutan Island
Laid down20 June 1944
Launched17 September 1944
Commissioned15 February 1945
Decommissioned19 October 1946
Stricken1 May 1960
Fateunknown
General characteristics
Class and typeLassen-class ammunition ship
Displacement
  • Light: 6,350 tons
  • Full load:13,855 tons
Length459 ft (140 m)
Beam63 ft (19.2 m)
Draught25 ft 11 in (7.9 m)
Propulsion2 x 9 cyl. Nordberg diesel engines each with 3155 brake horsepower at 225 rpm geared to 1 shaft
Speed16 knots (30 km/h)
Capacity5,000 deadweight tons
Complement280 officers and enlisted
Armament
  • 1 × single 5 in (127 mm) 38 caliber gun
  • 4 × single 3 in (76 mm) 50 caliber guns
  • 2 × twin 40 mm guns
  • 8 × twin 20 mm guns

USS Akutan (AE-13) was a Lassen-class ammunition ship commissioned in the United States Navy. She was laid down on 20 June 1944 at Tampa, Fla., by the Tampa Shipbuilding Co.; launched on 17 September 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Rosswell B. Daggett, the wife of Capt. Daggett, USN, the supervisor of shipbuilding at Tampa; and commissioned on 15 February 1945. She was named after Akutan Island, an active volcano in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.

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