USS Rankin

History
United States
Name	Rankin
Namesake	Rankin County, Mississippi
Ordered	July 1944
Builder	North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina
Laid down	31 October 1944
Launched	22 December 1944
Commissioned	25 February 1945
Decommissioned	21 May 1947
Recommissioned	22 March 1952
Decommissioned	11 May 1971
Reclassified	LKA-103, 1969
Stricken	1 January 1977
Motto	"Ready Now"
Honors and awards	1 battle star (World War II)
Fate	Sunk as a fishing & diving reef off Stuart, Florida, 24 July 1988
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General characteristics
Class and type	Tolland-class attack cargo ship
Displacement	8,635 long tons (8,774 t) light 13,190 long tons (13,402 t) full
Length	459 ft 2 in (139.95 m)
Beam	63 ft (19 m)
Draft	26 ft 4 in (8.03 m)
Propulsion	GE geared turbine drive, single propeller, 6,000 shp (4.5 MW)
Speed	16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph)
Range	17,000 miles
Boats & landing craft carried	14 × LCVP 8 × LCM
Capacity	380,000 ft3 (11.000 m³), 5,275 tons
Complement	62 officers, 333 men
Armament	1 × 5"/38 caliber gun 4 × twin 40 mm guns 16 × 20 mm guns

USS Rankin (AKA-103/LKA-103) was a Tolland-class attack cargo ship in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1947 and again from 1952 to 1971. She was finally sunk as an artificial reef in 1988.