USS Comet (AP-166) underway sometime between 1944 and 1946.
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History | |
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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 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | La Salle-class transport |
Displacement |
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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 |
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Troops | 1,575 (75 officers, 1,500 enlisted men) |
Complement | 276 (24 officers, 252 enlisted men) |
Armament |
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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.