USS Great Lakes (AD-30)

Career
Name: USS Great Lakes
Builder: Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle, Washington
Laid down: 16 April 1945
Fate: Cancelled 7 January 1946
General characteristics
Type:Shenandoah-class destroyer tender
Displacement:11,755 long tons (11,944 t) light
16,880 long tons (17,151 t) full
Length:492 ft (150 m)
Beam:69 ft 6 in (21.18 m)
Draft:28 ft (8.5 m)
Propulsion:Steam turbine, single propeller
Speed:18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement:977 officers and enlisted
Armament:• 2 × single 5"/38 caliber gun mounts
• 8 × 40 mm AA guns
• 22 × 20 mm AA guns

USS Great Lakes (AD-30) was a planned Shenandoah class destroyer tender of the United States Navy.

Great Lakes was laid down on 16 April 1945 at the Todd Pacific Shipyard in Seattle. She was cancelled on 7 January 1946, when she was around 20% complete.[1]

References

  1. "Great Lakes (AD-30)". NavSource. Retrieved 1 April 2015.