Broadwater and Bellerophon (ARL-31) in San Francisco Bay, October 1945.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Broadwater |
Namesake | Broadwater County, Montana |
Builder | California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, Los Angeles |
Laid down | 1 September 1944 |
Launched | 5 November 1944 |
Commissioned | 2 January 1945 |
Decommissioned | 28 February 1946 |
Stricken | 20 March 1946 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping, 13 June 1974 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Haskell-class attack transport |
Displacement |
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Length | 455 ft (139 m) |
Beam | 62 ft (19 m) |
Draft | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Boats & landing craft carried | |
Capacity | 150,000 cubic feet, 2,900 tons |
Troops | 86 officers, 1,475 enlisted men |
Complement | 56 officers, 480 enlisted men |
Armament |
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USS Broadwater (APA-139) was a Haskell-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1974.