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LST-1114 / AKS-19 Presque Isle / Vanderburgh
APB-48 Vanderburgh

Benawah Class Self-propelled Barracks Ship, Laid down as LST-1114; Redesignated General Stores Issue Ship, named Presque Isle (AKS-19), 8 January 1945; renamed Vanderburgh (AKS-19), 17 February 1945; Redesignated Self-propelled Barracks Ship, USS Vanderburgh (APB-48), 31 March 1945; Launched, (date unknown) ; Commissioned USS Vanderburgh (APB-48), (date unknown); Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Final Disposition, fate unknown.

APB Specifications: Displacement 4,080 t.; Length 328'; Beam 50'; Draft 14' 1 "; Speed 11.6kts; Complement 119; Troop Capacity 990; Armament eight 40mm; Propulsion, two General Motors 12-567 Diesel engines, two shafts.
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