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USS Clytie was similar to Sea Scamp
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Name | Sea Scamp |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Launched | 30 April 1943 |
Fate | Scrapped 1971 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 8,348 tons |
Length | 465 ft (142 m) |
Beam | 70 ft (21 m) |
Speed | 18 knots |
USAT Sea Scamp was a Type C3 ship S-A2 troop transport that saw service in World War II.
She was launched on 30 April 1943 by Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, under a Maritime Commission contract with owner Lykes Brothers Steamship Company.
Voyages
The ship was purchased by Matson Line in 1947 and renamed Hawaiian Packer. The historic Kamchatka earthquake 1952 November 4 16:58:26.0 UTC Magnitude 9.0 generated a tsunami wave in Honolulu harbor which sent a cement barge from its moorings to collide against the freighter. [1] It was sold to U.S. Maritime Commission in 1964 and renamed Pecos in 1966. It was scrapped in 1971. [2]
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USS Clytie was similar to Sea Scamp
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History | |
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Name | Sea Scamp |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Launched | 30 April 1943 |
Fate | Scrapped 1971 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 8,348 tons |
Length | 465 ft (142 m) |
Beam | 70 ft (21 m) |
Speed | 18 knots |
USAT Sea Scamp was a Type C3 ship S-A2 troop transport that saw service in World War II.
She was launched on 30 April 1943 by Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, under a Maritime Commission contract with owner Lykes Brothers Steamship Company.
Voyages
The ship was purchased by Matson Line in 1947 and renamed Hawaiian Packer. The historic Kamchatka earthquake 1952 November 4 16:58:26.0 UTC Magnitude 9.0 generated a tsunami wave in Honolulu harbor which sent a cement barge from its moorings to collide against the freighter. [1] It was sold to U.S. Maritime Commission in 1964 and renamed Pecos in 1966. It was scrapped in 1971. [2]