USS Wright (AV-1)
USS Wright (AZ-1) at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, April 1927 |
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Wright |
| Namesake: | Orville Wright |
| Builder: | American International Shipbuilding Corporation, Hog Island, Pennsylvania |
| Yard number: | 680 |
| Laid down: | 5 February 1919 as Skaneateles |
| Launched: | 28 April 1920 |
| Completed: | 16 December 1921 |
| Commissioned: | 16 December 1921, as AZ-1 |
| Decommissioned: | 21 June 1946 |
| Renamed: | San Clemente (AG-79), 1 February 1945 |
| Reclassified: | AV-1 (Aircraft Tender), 2 December 1926 AG-79 (Miscellaneous Auxiliary), 1 October 1944 |
| Struck: | 1 July 1946 |
| Honours and awards: |
2 battle stars (World War II) |
| Fate: | Transferred to Maritime Commission, 21 September 1946 Sold for scrapping, 19 August 1948 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Seaplane tender |
| Displacement: | 11,500 long tons (11,685 t) full load |
| Length: | 448 ft (137 m) |
| Beam: | 58 ft (18 m) |
| Draft: | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1 × General Electric turbine, 3,000 shp (2,237 kW) 1 shaft |
| Speed: | 15.3 knots (28.3 km/h; 17.6 mph) |
| Complement: | 228 officers and men |
| Armament: | • 2 × 5"/38 caliber guns • 2 × 3"/50 caliber guns • 2 × machine guns |
| Aircraft carried: | F5L and Curtiss NC-10 seaplanes |
USS Wright (AZ-1/AV-1) was a one-of-a-kind auxiliary ship in the United States Navy, named for aviation pioneer Orville Wright.
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