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YF-630 / APL-19 / IX-520

APL-17 Class Non-self-propelled Barracks Ship:
  • Laid down, 21 June 1944, as Covered Lighter YF-630 at Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Tampa, FL.
  • Redesignated Barracks Craft APL-19 (date unknown)
  • Launched, 6 August 1944
  • Commissioned USS APL-19, 14 October 1944
  • Decommissioned (date unknown)
  • Place in service (date unknown)
  • Redesignated IX-520 (date unknown)
  • IX-520 was part of the CincLantFlt Berthing and Messing Program and was berthed at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA.
  • Placed our of service and struck from the Naval Register, 13 March 2001
  • Final Disposition, disposed of as a target, 13 June 2006
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,300 t.(lt), 2,580 t.(fl)
    Length 261'
    Beam 49'
    Draft 11'
    Complement unknown
    Accommodations 6 Officers, 680 Enlisted;
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