USS Beagle (IX-112)

History
United States
Name	David Rittenhouse Beagle
Namesake	David Rittenhouse The Beagle
Ordered	as a Type T1-S-C3 hull, MCE hull 1901[1]
Builder	California Shipbuilding Corporation, Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California
Laid down	27 September 1943
Launched	29 October 1943
Commissioned	20 November 1943
Decommissioned	13 June 1946
Renamed	Beagle, 27 October 1943
Stricken	3 July 1946
Identification	Hull symbol: IX-112 Code letters: NJFL
Honors and awards	1 × battle star
Fate	Returned to MARCOM, 13 June 1946, laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall, Virginia Sold, 14 July 1948
United States
Name	Edison Skipper
Owner	Edison Tanker Corporation, Inc., New York City
Acquired	14 July 1948
Fate	Sold, December 1954
Liberia
Name	George S. George Sideratos Maria G.L.
Acquired	December 1954
Fate	Scrapped, 1964
General characteristics [2]
Class and type	Armadillo class tanker
Type	Type T1-S-C3
Displacement	14,500 long tons (14,700 t)
Length	441 ft 6 in (134.57 m)
Beam	56 ft 11 in (17.35 m)
Draught	28 ft 4 in (8.64 m)
Installed power	2 × header-type steam boilers 2,500 shp (1,900 kW)
Propulsion	1 × vertical triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine 1 × propeller
Speed	11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement	79 officers and men
Armament	1 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber dual purpose (DP) gun 1 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber DP gun 8 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon cannon anti-aircraft gun mounts

USS Beagle (IX-112), was an Armadillo class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel. She was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the beagle, a breed of small, short-coated hunting hound.