History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Midway |
Namesake | Midway Atoll |
Owner | Alaska Transportation Company, Seattle, Washington |
Builder | Todd Shipyards Corporation, Brooklyn, New York |
Laid down | date unknown |
Completed | in 1921 |
Acquired | by the Navy on bareboat charter |
Commissioned | 10 April 1942 as USS Midway (AG-41) at Puget Sound Navy Yard |
Decommissioned | 24 May 1946 |
Renamed | Tyee in 1939; USS Panay (AG-41), 3 April 1943 |
Stricken | date unknown |
Fate | Returned to her owner at war's end |
General characteristics | |
Type | commercial cargo ship |
Tonnage | 2,250 tons |
Displacement | 1,622 tons |
Length | 238' 8" |
Beam | 33' 8" |
Draft | 16' 9" |
Propulsion | unknown, single propeller |
Speed | 11.5 knots |
Troops | 300 |
Complement | 86 officers and enlisted |
Armament | one single 3 in (76 mm) gun mount |
USS Midway (AG-41), later renamed as USS Panay (AG-41), was a commercial cargo ship leased by the United States Navy during World War II. She was used by the Navy as a cargo ship and as a troop transport in the North Pacific Ocean. She was returned to her owner at war's end.