USS YF-854 was an American YF-852-class[1] covered lighter built in 1945. She was later commissioned by the United States Navy and renamed USS Littlehales (AGSC-15) in 1959, serving as a coastal survey ship.[2][3]
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History | |
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Name | YF-854 |
Builder | Erie Concrete & Steel Co. |
Laid down | 31 May 1945 |
Launched | 28 August 1945 |
Commissioned | 17 December 1952 |
Renamed | Littlehales |
Namesake | George W. Littlehales |
Decommissioned | 1 April 1968 |
Stricken | 20 February 1968 |
Identification |
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Honors and awards | See Awards |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | YF-852-class lighter |
Displacement | 300 t (295 long tons) |
Length | 132 ft 6 in (40.39 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 0 in (9.45 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 0 in (2.74 m) |
Installed power | |
Propulsion | 2 × Union diesel engines |
Speed | 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 19 crew |
Sensors and processing systems | 1 × AN/SPS-10 surface-search radar |
The ship is named after an American oceanographer George Washington Littlehales, an American chairman of the Section of Physical Oceanography, American Geophysical Union, and as vice president of the Section of Oceanography, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.[2]
Awards
Citations
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
References
- Blackman, Raymond V. B., ed. (1962). Jane's Fighting Ships 1962–63. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd.
External links
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