USS Black Hawk (AD-9)

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.
History
United States
NameUSS Black Hawk
BuilderWilliam Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Cost$99,751 (hull & machinery)[1]
Launched1913, as SS Santa Catalina
Acquiredby purchase, 3 December 1917
Commissioned15 May 1918
Decommissioned15 August 1946
ReclassifiedAD-9, November 1920
Honours and
awards
1 battle star (WWII)
FateTransferred to Maritime Commission, 4 September 1947 Sold for scrap, 17 March 1948
General characteristics
TypeDestroyer tender
Displacement5,690 long tons (5,781 t)
Length420 ft 2 in (128.07 m)
Beam53 ft 10 in (16.41 m)
Draft28 ft 5 in (8.66 m)
Speed13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement471
Armament
  • 4 × 5 in (130 mm) guns
  • 1 × 3 in (76 mm) gun

USS Black Hawk (AD-9) was a destroyer tender.

  1. ^ "Table 21 – Ships on Navy List June 30, 1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 762. 1921.