USS Alamance (AKA-75)

History

The USS Alamance (AKA-75) was a United States Navy Tolland-class attack cargo ship named for Alamance County, North Carolina. Like all AKAs, the Alamance is designed to carry military cargo and landing craft, which are used to land weapons, supplies and soldiers or marines on enemy shores during amphibious operations.

She served on a contract ship for 18 months.

USS Alamance was laid as C2-S-AJ3 ship by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company under a Maritime Commission contract (MC Hull 1405) at Wilmington, NC on September 15, 1944; November 11, 1944 Launched; sponsored by Mrs. Carl T. Durham; acquired by the Navy on December 22, 1944; and commissioned the same day, Comdr.

Conducted by Otto John Stein.

Specification

Basic

Year of Service

1944

Origins

United States

supplement

395

staff

Class information

Class

Toramban

Class Size

33

ships

Class

Tolan (AKA-64); Shoshone (AKA-65); Southampton (AKA-66); Rigid (AKA-67); Stokes (AKA-68); Suffolk (AKA-68) AKA-69); Tate (AKA-70); Todd (AKA-71); Caswell (AKA-72); New Hanover (AKA-73); Lenoir (AKA-74); Alamance (AKA-75); Torrance (AKA-76); Towner (AKA-77); Trego (AKA-78); Trousdale (AKA-79); Tyrrell (AKA-77) 80); Valencia (AKA-81); Venango (AKA-82); Vinton (AKA-83); Waukesha (AKA-84); Wheat Country (AKA-85); Woodford (AKA) -86); Dublin (AKA-87); Ottawa (AKA-101); Prentice (AKA-102); Rankin (AKA-103); Seminole (AKA-104); Skagit (AKA-104) AKA-105); Union (AKA-106); Vermilion (AKA-107); Washburn (AKA-108); San Joaquin (AKA-109)

Carrier

US;Taiwan

Dimensions and Weight

Length

459.0 feet

139.90m

Ray

63. 0 feet

19.20m

Draft

26. 3 feet

8.02m

Shift

15,900

t

Power and Performance

Installed Power:

GE gear turbine producing 6,000 hp on 1 x shaft.

Surface Velocity

section 16.5

(19.0 km/h)

weapons

1 x 5" /38 caliber deck gun 4 x 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns (twin turrets). 16 x 20mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns

Aircraft

None.