AKA-57 Capricornus

Country: United States

Class, [Type]: Andromeda, [AK].

Builder: Moore Drydock Co., Oakland, California, U.S.A.

Launch date: 14th August 1943.

Commission date: 31st May 1944.

Decommission date: 10th February 1970.

Displacement ( tons ): 6.830.

Dimensions ( metres ): 139,95 x 19 x 8,03

Main machinery: 2 x Foster & Wheeler boilers, 2 x General Electric steam turbine ( 6.000 hp ), 1 x propeller.

Speed ( knots ): 16.

Complement: 428 ( 65 officers ).

Guns: 1 x 127mm/38, 8 x 40mm ( twin mountings ), 16 x 20mm.

Military lift: 3.900 tm, non-refrigerated 444.000 cu.ft., 10.990 barrels of fuel oil.

Callsign: NHFV ()

Comment: Ex - SS Spitfire. Reclassified to LKA-57 1st January 1969. Carried 8 x LCM, 1 x LCPL, 15 x LCVP. Scrapped in 1975.

Awards (as of 10/02/1970): 

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