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AS-25 Apollo
Aegir Class Submarine Tender: Laid down, 24 June 1943 as a Maritime Commission, type (C3-S-A2) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 860) at Ingalls Shipbuilding Co., Pascagoula, MS; Launched, 6 November 1943; Acquired by the Navy, 31 December 1943 and placed in temporary commission for passage to her conversion yard; Decommissioned, 14 January 1944 and turned over to Atlantic Basin Iron Works, Brooklyn, NY for conversion to a Submarine Tender; Placed in full commission, as USS Apollo (AS-25), 29 September 1944; Decommissioned, 12 Febtuary 1946 at New London, CT; laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, New London, CT.; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1963; Transferred to MARAD for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Fort Eustis, VA.; Final disposition, sold for scrapping in 1974 to Union Minerals & Alloys Corp.
Specifications: Displacement 16,500 t.(fl); Length 492' 6"; Beam 69' 6"; Draft 27'; Speed 18.4kts; Complement 1,460; Armament, one single 5"/38 dp gun mount, four 3"/50 guns, four 40mm guns, twenty 20mm guns; Propulsion, Geared Turbine
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