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AK-212 Somerset / T-AGM-15 Coastal Sentry

Alamosa Class Cargo Ship: Laid down, 9 October 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (C1-M-AV1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 2166) at Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, WI.; Launched, 21 January 1945; Acquired by the US Navy from the Maritime Commission, 20 September 1945; Never commissioned; Returned to the Maritime Commission, 2 November 1945; Renamed Coastal Sentry by the Maritime Commission; Struck from the Naval Register, 5 December 1945; Re-acquired by the US Navy, 1964; Converted to a Coastal Sentry Class Missile Range Instrumentation Ship: Assigned to MSTS and placed In-service as USNS Coastal Sentry (T-AGM-15); Placed Out -of-service, 1972; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Returned to MARAD for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet; Final Disposition, fate unknown.

AK Specifications: Displacement 2,382 t.(lt) 7,125 t.(fl); Length 338' 6"; Beam 50' ; Draft 21' 1"; Speed 11.5kts; Complement 85; Cargo Capacity, 3,500 DWT; Armament, one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, six 20mm guns; Propulsion, diesel, single propeller, 1,700shp.

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