USS Alamosa

	USS Alamosa (AK-156); her camouflage is Measure 32 Design 6AO.
History
United States
Name	Alamosa
Namesake	Alamosa County, Colorado
Ordered	as type ( MC hull 2101
Builder	Kaiser Shipbuilding Co., Richmond, California
Yard number	58
Laid down	15 November 1943
Launched	14 April 1944
Commissioned	10 August 1944
Decommissioned	25 August 1944
Recommissioned	25 September 1944
Decommissioned	20 May 1946
Refit	25 August 1944, conversion to an ammunition issue ship
Stricken	14 June 1946
Identification	Hull symbol: AK-156; Code letters: NEFD; ;
Fate	Sold, 1 May 1972, scrapped August 1972
General characteristics
Class and type	Alamosa-class cargo ship
Type	C1-M-AV1
Tonnage	5,032 long tons deadweight (DWT)
Displacement	2,382 long tons (2,420 t) (standard); 7,450 long tons (7,570 t) (full load);
Length	388 ft 8 in (118.47 m)
Beam	50 ft (15 m)
Draft	21 ft 1 in (6.43 m)
Installed power	1 × Nordberg, TSM 6 diesel engine ; 1,750 shp (1,300 kW);
Propulsion	1 × propeller
Speed	11.5 kn (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)
Capacity	3,945 t (3,883 long tons) DWT; 9,830 cu ft (278 m3) ( refrigerated); 227,730 cu ft (6,449 m3) (non-refrigerated);
Complement	10 Officers; 69 Enlisted;
Armament	1 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber dual-purpose gun (DP); 6 × 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft (AA) cannons;

USS Alamosa (AK-156) was the

US Navy for service in World War II

Service history

Alamosa was laid down under a

Mare Island, California, Alamosa set sail on November [...] for the Marshall Islands.^[3]

Upon arriving at

Navy list on 14 June 1946.^[3] The ship was sold for $6,227.22, to American Ship Dismantlers, Inc., on 19 May 1972, for non-transportation use.^[5]

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Alamosa-class cargo ships
Alamosa Alcona Amador Antrim Autauga Beaverhead Beltrami Blount Brevard Bullock Cabell Caledonia Charlevoix Chatham Chicot Claiborne Clarion Codington Colquitt Craighead Doddridge^* Duval^* Fairfield Faribault Fentress Flagler Gadsden Glacier Grainger Gwinnett Habersham Hennepin Herkimer Hidalgo Kenosha Lebanon Lehigh Lancaster Marengo Midland Minidoka Muscatine Muskingum Nicollet Pembina Pemiscot Pinellas Pipestone Pitkin Poinsett Pontotoc Richland Rockdale Schuyler Screven Sebastian Somerset / Coastal Sentry Sussex Tarrant Tipton Traverse^* Tulare^* Washtenaw^** / Sgt. George Peterson Westchester^* Wexford^† / Coastal Crusader Maiden's Eye / Colonel William J. O'Brien Becket Bend / Private John F. Thorson Short Splice Long Splice / Private Frank J. Petrarca
* = Canceled August 1945 ** = Canceled August 1945, but completed as Coastal Guide † = Canceled August 1945, but completed as Coastal Crusader
List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy