History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS DuPage |
Namesake | DuPage County, Illinois |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
Launched | 19 December 1942, as Sea Hound (AP-86) |
Commissioned | 1 September 1943 |
Decommissioned | 28 March 1946 |
Reclassified | APA-41, 1 February 1943 |
Honors and awards | 6 battle stars (World War II) |
Fate | Scrapped, 1973 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Bayfield-class attack transport |
Displacement | 7,845 long tons (7,971 t) |
Length | 491 ft 8 in (149.86 m) |
Beam | 69 ft 6 in (21.18 m) |
Draft | 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m) |
Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
Complement | 540 |
Armament | 2 × 5"/38 caliber guns |
USS DuPage (AP-86/APA-41) was a Bayfield-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. She was then sold into commercial service and was scrapped in 1973.