USS Comet (AP-166)

USS Comet (AP-166) underway sometime between 1944 and 1946.
History
United States
Name	USS Comet
Namesake	A comet
Builder	Moore Dry Dock Company, Oakland, California
Launched	21 December 1942
Sponsored by	Mrs. E. Warren
Commissioned	15 February 1944
Decommissioned	14 August 1946
Honors and awards	Three battle stars for World War II service
Fate	Transferred to War Shipping Administration for disposal 1946 Sold 1948
Notes	Operated commercially as SS Pioneer Reef 1948-1965 and as SS Australian Reef 1965-1970 Sold for scrapping May 1970
General characteristics
Class and type	La Salle-class transport
Displacement	6,556 tons light 13,910 tons full load
Length	459 ft 2 in (139.95 m)
Beam	63 ft (19 m)
Draft	23 ft (7.0 m) limiting
Installed power	Three 250-kilowatt (335-horsepower) 240-volt direct-current diesel ship's service generators; 880 barrels (140 m3) diesel fuel
Propulsion	One General Electric Steam turbine; two Foster Wheeler D-type boilers 450 psi at 750 degrees; double General Electric main reduction gears; 6,000 horsepower (4.47 megawatts); one shaft; 10,300 barrels (1,640 m3) Navy special fuel oil
Speed	16.5 knots (trial)
Capacity	2,100 deadweight tons cargo 10,321 cubic feet (292 cubic meters refrigerated cargo space 135,935 cubic feet (3,849 cubic meters) non-refrigerated cargo space
Troops	1,575 (75 officers, 1,500 enlisted men)
Complement	276 (24 officers, 252 enlisted men)
Armament	1 × single 5-inch/38-caliber (127-mm) dual-purpose gun mount 4 × single 3-inch/50-caliber (76.2-mm) dual-purpose gun mounts 12 × single 20-mm antiaircraft gun mounts
Notes	Largest boom capacity 10 tons

The third USS Comet (AP-166) was a United States Navy La Salle-class transport in commission from 1944 to 1946. She saw service in the Pacific Theater of Operations during the latter stages of World War II and the immediate postwar period.