USAT Charles Lummis
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 Sister ship of SS Charles Lummis | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | SS Charles Lummis |
| Owner | US Marine Corps |
| Builder | California Ship-building Corp |
| Launched | 5 May 1943 |
| Completed | June 1943 |
| In service | 4 Jul 1943 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1965 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Cargo vessel |
| Tonnage | 7,176 tons |
| Length | 134.57 metres |
| Beam | 17.3 metres |
| Depth | 8.5 metres |
| Propulsion | Two oil fired boilers, single screw |
| Speed | 11 knots (20.3 km/h) |
| Capacity | 38 - 62 crew plus 21 - 40 Naval staff to man armanents. |
Remarks
A US Liberty Ship named after an early American Journalist and first editor of the Los Angeles Times, Charles Fletcher Lummis. Laid down on 13 April she was launched on 5 May 1943. Her first voyage was from Los Angeles to Hobart, and then on to Karachi and Milne Bay in PNG. Accordoing to newspaper reports of her launching he was either the 162nd or 182nd Liberty ship built by the California Ship-building Corporation
Armament - Stern-mounted 4-in (102 mm) deck gun for use against surfaced submarines, variety of anti-aircraft guns.