
Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945
AK-46 USS Pleiades
- Pleiades class Cargo Ship:
- Displacement: 8,000 tons (full load)
- Length: 383'
- Beam: 51'
- Draft: 21'6"
- Speed: 13 knots
- Armament: 2 3"/50 DP, 4 20mm
- Complement:
- Capacity: 4,300 DWT
- Diesel engines, single screw, 2,400 hp.
- Built at Cantieri Navali Riuniti, Palermo, Sicily, as Mangalia in 1939
- Taken over by the Maritime Commission, and commissioned in USN 3 September 1941
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Last updated:
March 25, 2001