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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Supply |
| Builder | Doullet and Williams, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Laid down | 1921 |
| Completed | May 1921 |
| Acquired | 5 February 1944 |
| Commissioned | 8 February 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 25 February 1946 |
| Reclassified | AVS-1, 25 May 1945 |
| Honors and awards | 1 battle star (World War II) |
| Fate | Sold, 26 January 1947 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Aviation Supply Ship |
| Displacement | 13,250 long tons (13,463 t) |
| Length | 411 ft 9 in (125.50 m) |
| Beam | 55 ft (17 m) |
| Draft | 27 ft 2 in (8.28 m) |
| Speed | 11.8 knots (21.9 km/h; 13.6 mph) |
| Complement | 167 |
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The third USS Supply (IX-147/AVS-1) was a freighter and aviation supply ship of the United States Navy during World War II.
The ship was built in 1921 by Doullet and Williams of New Orleans, Louisiana, and was operated by the American Pioneer and American Export Lines as MS Ward. Ward sailed from Hoboken, New Jersey, to Pearl Harbor, on 25 November 1943, after calling at Norfolk, Virginia, and Oakland, California, to load aviation material. Upon her arrival at Pearl Harbor the ship was to be allocated to the Navy, on a bareboat basis, by the War Shipping Administration. Ward was acquired by the Navy at Pearl Harbor on 5 February 1944 and commissioned on 8 February 1944 as Supply (IX-147).