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FS-347
AG-137 / AKL-8 Roque


USS Roque (AKL-8) previously served as USAT FS-347
AG-130 Miscellaneous Class Auxiliary / Camano Class Light Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down (date unknown) at Kewaunee Shipbuilding Co., Kewaunee, WI.
  • Delivered to US Army, as FS-347 (date unknown)
  • Acquired by the US Navy, 21 February 1947, at Navy Yard Subic Bay, P.I.
  • Commissioned Miscellaneous Auxiliary USS Roque (AG-137), 2 May 1947, Apra, Guam
  • Reclassified Light Cargo Ship, (AKL-8), 31 March 1949
  • Decommissioned, 23 July 1951 and loaned to the Interior Dept.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group, Astoria, OR.
  • Struck from the Naval Register and transferred to the Interior Dept., 29 January 1952
  • 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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