USS Altamaha



USS Altamaha Escort Carrier Escort Carrier Underway USS Altamaha Carrier Deck Aircraft Carrier
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Radar on USS Altamaha USS Altamaha USS Altamaha Planes on deck of USS Altamaha
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Displacement: 7,800 tons
length: 465 feet
beam: 69 feet 6 inches
draft: 23 feet 3 inches
Speed: 16.5 knots
Armament: 2 five inch guns, 8 twin 40-mm/56-cal gun mounts, 27 single 20-mm/70-cal gun
Complment: 890
Aircraft: 24
Class: Bogue Class Escort Carrier

Commissioned:  September 15, 1942
Decommissioned:  September 27, 1946 and scaped

 


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