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FS-256
AG-130 / AKL-1 Camano


USS Camano (AKL-1) previously served as USAT FS-256
Camano Class Light Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down (date unknown) as FS-256 for the US Army at Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp., Whitestone, Long Island, N.Y.
  • Delivered to US Army Transportation Service (date unknown)
  • Acquired by the US Navy, 16 July 1947, at Apra, Guam, as Miscellaneous Auxiliary, and commissioned USS Camano (AG-130) the same day
  • Reclassified Light Cargo Ship, (AKL-1), 31 March 1949
  • Decommissioned and transferred to the Interior Department, 26 July 1951
  • Returned to US Naval custody, 22 December 1952
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 550 t.
    Length 177'
    Beam 33'
    Draft 10'
    Speed 12 kts.
    Complement 42
    Propulsion two 500hp GM Cleveland Division 6-278A 6-cyl V6 diesel engines, twin screws
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