USS Pitkin (AK-204)

History

United States
Name:	Pitkin
Namesake:	Pitkin County, Colorado
Ordered:	MC hull 2158
Builder:	Globe Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisconsin
Laid down:	date unknown
Launched:	date unknown
Acquired:	May 1945
Commissioned:	returned to the Maritime Commission prior to commissioning
Struck:	date unknown
Identification:	Hull symbol:AK-204
Fate:	renamed MV Coastal Observer GAA Lykes Bros. SS Co., Inc., 20 November 1945, at Beaumont, Texas Chartered by Lykes Bros. SS Co, Inc, 19 June 1946 GAA Mississippi Shipping Co., 30 June 1949 Laid up, 11 July 1949, in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Beaumont, Texas Sold, foreign, Brazil, 13 July 1956, delivered, 15 February 1957
Status:	fate unknown
General characteristics ^[1]
Class & type:	Alamosa-class cargo ship
Type:	C1-M-AV1
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:	1,750 shp (1,300 kW)
Propulsion:	1 × Nordberg Diesel diesel TSM 6 engine 1 × shaft
Speed:	11.5 kn (13.2 mph; 21.3 km/h)
Capacity:	3,945 t (3,883 long tons) DWT
Complement:	15 Officers 70 Enlisted
Armament:	1 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber dual purpose gun 6 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon cannons anti-aircraft gun mounts

USS Pitkin (AK-204) was an Alamosa-class cargo ship that was constructed for the U.S. Navy during the closing period of World War II. By the time she was scheduled for commissioning, the war’s end caused her to be declared “excess to needs” and she was returned to the U.S. Government and struck by the Navy.

Career

Pitkin (AK–204) was laid down under Maritime Commission contract by Globe Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisconsin. She was transferred to the Navy in May 1945. Pitkin was scheduled for commissioning. However, because of the Allied victory in the Pacific Ocean theatre of operations, her commissioning was cancelled. Pitkin was ordered returned to the U.S. Maritime Commission for disposal. She was subsequently renamed Coastal Observer. Her subsequent fate is not known.

References

↑ "USS Pitkin (AK-204)". Navsource.org. Retrieved June 7, 2015.

NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive - AK-204 Pitkin

Alamosa-class cargo ship

Alamosa Alcona Amador Antrim Autauga Beaverhead Beltrami Blount Brevard Bullock Cabell Caledonia Charlevoix Chatham Chicot Claiborne Clarion Codington Colquitt Craighead Dodridge^* 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 Sussex Tarrant Tipton Traverse^* Tulate^* 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

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