USS Gemsbok (IX-117)
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USS Gemsbok |
| Namesake | Gemsbok antelope |
| Owner | United States Navy |
| Builder | California Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down | 1943 |
| Launched | 9 November 1943 |
| Acquired | 3 December 1943 |
| Commissioned | 3 December 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 30 April 1946 |
| In service | 12 January 1944 |
| Out of service | 2 March 1944 |
| Reclassified | 11 May 1946 as the SS Carl R. Gray |
| Stricken | 10 March 1966 |
| Fate | Sold commercial 1946, scrapped 1966 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Armadillo-class tanker |
| Type | IX |
| Displacement | 14,500 t (14,300 long tons; 16,000 short tons) |
| Length | 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m) |
| Beam | 56 ft 11 in (17.35 m) |
| Draft | 28 ft 4 in (8.64 m) |
| Speed | 11.8 knots |
| Complement | 110 officers and men |
| Armament |
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USS Gemsbok (IX-117), an
launched on 9 November 1943 sponsored by Miss E. Jeffers, acquired and simultaneously commissioned
on 3 December 1943. She was renamed Gemsbok upon acquisition.
Gemsbok sailed 12 January 1944 for the
Kwajalein, and from 5 July to 16 September 1944 was at Saipan
servicing ships engaged in the capture and occupation of bases in the Marianas.
She sailed from
Decommissioned there 30 April 1946, Gemsbok was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 8 May 1946 and subsequently sold to Maris Transportation System Inc. and in 1948 renamed Alpha operated by T. J. Stevenson & Company, Inc.
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.