History | |
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United States | |
Name | Oneida |
Namesake | |
Ordered | as a Type VC2-S-AP5 hull, MCE hull 569[1] |
Builder | Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond, California |
Yard number | 569[1] |
Laid down | 30 September 1944 |
Launched | 31 October 1944 |
Sponsored by | Mrs Victor E. Cole |
Commissioned | 4 December 1944 |
Decommissioned | 27 December 1946 |
Stricken | 1 October 1958 |
Identification |
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Honors and awards | 1 × battle star for World War II service |
Fate | Scrapped 1975 |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | Haskell-class attack transport |
Type | Type VC2-S-AP5 |
Displacement | |
Length | 455 ft (139 m) |
Beam | 62 ft (19 m) |
Draft | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 17.7 kn (32.8 km/h; 20.4 mph) |
Boats & landing craft carried |
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Capacity |
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Troops | 86 officers, 1,475 enlisted |
Complement | 56 officers, 480 enlisted |
Armament |
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Service record | |
Part of: | TransRon 23 |
Operations: | Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto (3–28 June 1945) |
Awards: |
USS Oneida (APA-221) was a Haskell-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1975.