USS Sebastian (original) (raw)

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Cargo ship of the United States Navy
History
United States
Name Sebastian
Namesake Sebastian County, Arkansas
Ordered as type (C1-M-AV1) hull, MC hull 2165[1]
Builder Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Yard number 331[1]
Laid down 10 August 1944
Launched 21 December 1944
Sponsored by Miss J.C. Sullivan
Acquired 10 August 1945
Commissioned 11 September 1945
Decommissioned 14 November 1945
Stricken 28 November 1945
Identification Hull symbol: AK-211 Code letters: NXOE
Fate transferred back to MARCOM, 14 November 1945
United States
Name Coastal Spartan
Owner MARCOM
Operator Fall River Navigation Company (1947)
Acquired 14 November 1945
In service 14 November 1945
Out of service 12 May 1948
Fate sent to reserve fleet, 18 May 1948 loaned to US Army, 31 October 1966
United States
Name Coastal Highflyer (1966–1967) Resolve (1967–)
Acquired 31 October 1966
Renamed May 1967
Fate Sold for scrap, 22 January 1976
General characteristics [2]
Class and type _Alamosa_-class cargo ship
Type C1-M-AV1
Tonnage 5,032 long tons deadweight (DWT)[1]
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 × Nordberg, TSM 6 diesel engine 1,750 shp (1,300 kW)
Propulsion 1 × propeller
Speed 11.5 kn (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)
Capacity 3,945 t (3,883 long tons) DWT 9,830 cu ft (278 m3) (refrigerated) 227,730 cu ft (6,449 m3) (non-refrigerated)
Complement 15 Officers 70 Enlisted
Armament 1 × [3 in (76 mm)/50](/wiki/3%22/50%5Fcaliber%5Fgun "3"/50 caliber gun") caliber dual purpose gun (DP) 6 × 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft (AA) cannons

USS Sebastian (AK-211) was an _Alamosa_-class cargo ship that was constructed for the US Navy during the closing period of World War II. She was retained by the Navy for only a short period of service before being inactivated as "excess to needs."

Sebastian was laid down on 10 August 1944, under US Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2165, by the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin; launched on 21 December 1944; sponsored by Miss J.C. Sullivan; delivered to the U.S. Maritime Commission on 31 January 1945; acquired by the Navy on loan charter on 10 August 1945; converted to an AK at New Orleans, Louisiana; and commissioned on 11 September 1945.[3]

Commissioned after the end of World War II, Sebastian was retained by the Navy only briefly.[3]

Post-war inactivation

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She was decommissioned on 14 November 1945 and simultaneously returned to MARCOM's War Shipping Administration (WSA) for subsequent maritime service under the name Coastal Highflyer. The name Sebastian was struck from the Navy List on 28 November 1945.[3]

On 4 January 1947, the Fall River Navigation Company chartered Coastal Highflyer. On 29 July 1947, she ran aground at the east end of Cayo Moa, Grand Shoal, Cuba.[2]

She was laid up in the Reserve Fleet in Wilmington, North Carolina, 18 May 1948.[2]

On 2 September 1960, she was put up for sale but received no bids.[4]

On 31 October 1966, Coastal Highflyer was loaned to the US Army to serve as a training ship for stevedores. In May 1967 her name was changed to Resolve.[2]

She was sold for scrap on 22 January 1976, to Andy International, Inc.[4]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c C1 Cargo Ships 2009.
  2. ^ a b c d Navsource 2011.
  3. ^ a b c DANFS.
  4. ^ a b MARAD.

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