History | |
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United States | |
Name: | Carter Hall |
Launched: | 4 March 1943 |
Commissioned: | 18 September 1943 |
Decommissioned: | 12 February 1947 |
Recommissioned: | 26 January 1951 |
Decommissioned: | 31 October 1969 |
Stricken: | 31 October 1969 |
Fate: | Sold for scrap, 28 August 1970 |
General characteristics | |
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Displacement: |
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Length: | 457 ft 9 in (139.52 m) overall |
Beam: | 72 ft 2 in (22.00 m) |
Draft: |
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Propulsion: | 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 Skinner Uniflow Reciprocating Steam Engines, 2 propeller shafts – each shaft 3,700 hp, at 240 rpm total shaft horse power 7,400, 2 11 ft 9 in diameter, 9 ft 9 in pitch propellers |
Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
Range: |
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Boats & landing craft carried: |
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Capacity: | 22 officers, 218 men |
Complement: | 23 officers, 267 men |
Armament: |
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Aircraft carried: | modified 1952 to accommodate helicopters on an added portable deck |