North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina
Laid down
9 October 1943
Launched
23 December 1943
Commissioned
15 February 1944
Decommissioned
12 August 1946
Renamed
SS Badger State
Stricken
28 August 1946
Honors and awards
4 battle stars (World War II)
Fate
Sold into merchant service, 1948
Sank 5 January 1970[1]
General characteristics
Class and type
Storm King-class transport
Displacement
13,910 long tons (14,133 t) full
Length
459 ft 2 in (139.95 m)
Beam
63 ft (19 m)
Draft
23 ft (7.0 m)
Speed
16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph)
Troops
1,375
Complement
360
Armament
1 × 5"/38 caliber gun
4 × 3"/50 caliber guns
12 × 20 mm AA guns
USS Starlight (AP-175) was a United States Navy Storm King-class auxiliary transport in commission from 1944 to 1945. She was designed as a troop carrier. After her naval service she became the civilian cargo ship SS Badger State. She sank in January 1970 after an explosion of a cargo of munitions on December 26, 1969, with the loss of 26 of her crew of 40.[2]
USSStarlight (AP-175) was a United States Navy Storm King-class auxiliary transport in commission from 1944 to 1945. She was designed as a troop carrier...
merchant freighter SS Badger State, formerly the U.S. Navy transport ship USSStarlight, sank in the Pacific Ocean. Ten days earlier, it had exploded while...
off Cape Henry on 7 October 1954. Survivors were attacked by sharks. USSStarlight, a C2-S-AJ1, on 26 December 1969 with a full load of 8,900 bombs, rockets...
in 1970, and that served in the United States Navy as the transport USSStarlight (AP-175) from 1944 to 1945 This article includes a list of ships with...
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American freighter SS Badger State. Formerly the U.S. Navy transport ship USSStarlight, the SS Badger State was transporting ordnance for the U.S. Air Force...
support while two United States Navy destroyers, the USS Orleck and the USS Prichett and the cruiser USS Galveston were available for naval gunfire support...
time. During its heyday, Starlight Park featured various amusement rides, as well as the Bronx Coliseum and the submarine USS Holland. Much of the park...
argued that as the structure would result in the large-scale conversion of starlight into far-infrared radiation, an earth-based search for sources of infrared...
Qui-Nhon, Chu-Lai and Da-Nang, the most famous of which was Operation "Starlight" conducted August 1965 where Sgt. Robert E. O'Malley was awarded the first...
are used by BNSF and Union Pacific and Amtrak's Capitol Corridor, Coast Starlight and San Joaquin services. The trains share the road with automobiles,...
former Air National Guard fighter pilot, was flown to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in a Navy S-3B Viking, it was the first use of the "Navy...
Sweeney and Marc Blucas Paul Ziller November 25, 2020 2.85 Christmas by Starlight (CtC) Kimberley Sustad and Paul Campbell Gary Yates November 26, 2020...
would not have been effective in the darkness, which was total except for starlight and the ship's own lights. The lookouts were nonetheless well aware of...
August 19 runs of westbound Southwest Chief and the southbound Coast Starlight to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Emeryville, California, respectively....
feet (210–300 m). These spotters observed the aircraft visually, using Starlight Scopes and by radar. Over the course of the night, Air Force pilots reported...
Never Say Never Again (1983) as Colonel Culpepper Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight (1985) as Cyborg / MC (1992) (English version, voice, uncredited) John...
real son Raymond Rickman. She performed at both the Toronto Benefit for Starlight during the filming and at the "Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS" New...
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