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AKA-82 Venango

Tolland Class Attack Cargo Ship: Laid down, 6 June 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-AJ3) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1391), at North Carolina Shipbuilding Corp. Wilmington, NC; Launched, 9 August 1944; Acquired by the Navy, and towed to her conversion yard at Hoboken, NJ; Commissioned USS Venango (AKA-82), 2 January 1945, at Bethlehem Steel Co. Hoboken, NJ; Decommissioned, 18 April 1946, at Norfolk, VA.; Returned to the Maritime Commission, 22 April 1946, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1946; Sold by the Maritime Commission for commercial service in 1948 to Waterman Steamship Corp., resold to Isbrandten Co. Inc, 1953, and renamed Flying Eagle, resold to Delta Steamship Lines, New Orleans, in 1970, and renamed Del Alba; Final Disposition, fate unknown. Venango received one battle star for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 8,635 t.(lt) 13,910 t (fl); Length 459' 2"; Beam 63'; Draft 26' 4"; Speed 16.5kts; Complement Officers 62 Enlisted 333; Armament one 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, four twin 40 mm gun mounts sixteen single 20 mm gun mounts; Boats, fourteen LCVP, eight LCM; Cargo Capacity, 380,000 cu ft, (5,275 t.); Propulsion, GE geared turbine drive, single propeller, 6,000shp.

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