Career | |
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Name: | USS DuPage |
Laid down: | 9 December 1942, as SS John W. Weeks |
Launched: | 2 January 1943 |
Fate: | scrapped in 1959 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | EC2-S-C1 |
Displacement: | 4,023 t. Long tons 11,565 t.full load |
Length: | 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m) |
Beam: | 56 ft 11 in (17.35 m) |
Draft: | 28 ft 4 in (8.64 m) |
Propulsion: | reciprocating steam engine, single shaft, 1,950shp |
Speed: | 12 knots |
Complement: | 151 |
USS DuPage (APB-51) was a barracks ship in the United States Navy.
DuPage was a self-propelled barracks ship and operated in a noncommissioned status providing Special Services with advanced bases, Pacific area, during 1951-59.