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AK-185 / AG-92 / AVS-5 Gwinnett

Alamosa Class Cargo Ship: Laid down, 21 December 1943, as Gwinnett (AK-185), a Maritime Commission type (C1-M-AV1), hull under a Maritime Commission contract at Walter Butler Shipbuilders, Inc., Superior, WI.; Redesignated a Miscellaneous Auxiliary (AG-92); Launched, 14 May 1944; Converted to a Gwinnett Class Aviation Stores Issue Ship at Port Houston Iron Works, Houston, TX.; Commissioned USS Gwinnett (AG-92), 10 April 1945, at Houston, TX.; Redesignated (AVS-5), 25 May 1945; Decommissioned, 11 February 1946, at San Francisco, CA.; Delivered to the Maritime Commission for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet the same day; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Final Disposition, fate unknown.

Specifications:Displacement 2,411t.(lt), 6,240 t.(fl) ; Length 338' 8"; Beam 50' 4; Speed 11kts; Complement 105; Armament one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, six single 20mm guns; Propulsion, diesel, single shaft, 1,700shp.

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