History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Earheart (DE-603) |
Namesake | James E. Earheart, Jr. |
Builder | Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., Hingham, Massachusetts |
Laid down | 20 March 1945 |
Reclassified | APD-113, while under construction |
Launched | 12 May 1945 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. James Earheart |
Commissioned | 26 July 1945 |
Decommissioned | 29 April 1946 |
Stricken | 12 December 1963 |
Fate | Transferred to Mexican Navy, 12 December 1963 |
Mexico | |
Name | ARM Papaloapan (H04) |
Namesake | Papaloapan River |
Reclassified | B04 |
Fate | ran aground, 1976 |
Stricken | 1976 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Rudderow-class destroyer escort, as ordered |
Class and type | Crosley-class high speed transport, as completed |
Displacement | 2,130 long tons (2,164 t) full |
Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 12 ft 7 in (3.84 m) |
Speed | 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) |
Troops | 162 |
Complement | 204 |
Armament |
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USS Earheart (APD-113), ex-DE-603, was a United States Navy high-speed transport in commission from 1945 to 1946.