USS Black Hawk (ID # 2140) Moored at Inverness, Scotland, in September 1918, while serving as Mine Force repair ship and flagship, and painted with a camouflage pattern.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Black Hawk |
Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia |
Cost | $99,751 (hull & machinery)[1] |
Launched | 1913, as SS Santa Catalina |
Acquired | by purchase, 3 December 1917 |
Commissioned | 15 May 1918 |
Decommissioned | 15 August 1946 |
Reclassified | AD-9, November 1920 |
Honours and awards | 1 battle star (WWII) |
Fate | Transferred to Maritime Commission, 4 September 1947 Sold for scrap, 17 March 1948 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Destroyer tender |
Displacement | 5,690 long tons (5,781 t) |
Length | 420 ft 2 in (128.07 m) |
Beam | 53 ft 10 in (16.41 m) |
Draft | 28 ft 5 in (8.66 m) |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Complement | 471 |
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USS Black Hawk (AD-9) was a destroyer tender.