USS Vega (AK-17)

USS Vega (AK-17)
History
United States
Name	Lebanon Vega
Namesake	Vega
Builder	American International Shipbuilding, Hog Island, Pennsylvania
Laid down	8 July 1918, as SS Lebanon
Launched	18 July 1919
Acquired	2 December 1921
Commissioned	21 December 1921
Decommissioned	15 January 1946
Stricken	12 March 1946
Honors and awards	4 battle stars (World War II)
Fate	Sold by the Maritime Commission, 6 August 1946, for scrapping to National Metals and Steel Corp.
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Sirius-class cargo ship
Type	Design 1022 ship
Displacement	4,037 t (3,973 long tons) (standard) 11,360 t (11,180 long tons) (full load)
Length	401 ft (122 m)
Beam	54 ft 2 in (16.51 m)
Draft	24 ft 5 in (7.44 m)
Installed power	2,500 shp (1,900 kW)
Propulsion	1 × General Electric-Curtis steam turbines 2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers header-type boilers, 215psi Sat 1 × shaft
Speed	11.1 kn (12.8 mph; 20.6 km/h)
Capacity	5,100 DWT
Complement	36 officers 413 enlisted
Armament	2 × 5 in (130 mm)/38 caliber dual purpose guns 4 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber dual purpose guns 8 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon cannons anti-aircraft gun mounts

USS Vega (AK-17), was a Sirius-class cargo ship of the United States Navy, originally the Lebanon — a single-screw, steel-hulled Type 1022 freighter, built under a United States Shipping Board contract at Hog Island, Pennsylvania, by the American International Shipbuilding Co. Laid down on 8 July 1918, the ship was launched on 18 July 1919. Acquired by the Navy on 2 December 1921, she was renamed Vega and given the classification of AK-17. She fitted out for Navy service, and was commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on 21 December 1921.