USS Nicollet

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USS Nicollet (AVS-6), probably photographed underway in San Francisco Bay, California, in 1945
History
US flag 48 stars.svgUnited States
NameNicollet
Namesake Nicollet County, Minnesota
Orderedas type (C1-M-AV1) hull, MC hull 2153 [1]
Builder Globe Shipbuilding Company, Superior, Wisconsin
Yard number120
Laid down9 February 1944
Launched31 July 1944
Sponsored byMrs. F.C. Hanson
Completed21 November 1944
Acquired12 March 1945
Commissioned27 April 1945
Decommissioned17 June 1946
Reclassified
  • Miscellaneous Auxiliary (AG), 12 March 1945
  • Aviation Stores Issue Ship (AVS), 25 May 1945
RefitGwinnett-class Aviation Stores Issue Ship, at Port Houston Iron Works, Houston, Texas, 12 March 1945
Stricken3 July 1946
Identification
FateLaid up in Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, 17 June 1946, sold, 30 June 1947
Civil and Naval Ensign of France.svg Republic of France
NameDjerada
Acquired30 June 1947
FateSold, 1959
Naval Ensign of Morocco.svg Morocco
NameDjerada
FateScrapped in Spain, February 1970
General characteristics [2]
Class & type
Type C1-M-AV1
Tonnage5,032 LT  DWT [3]
Displacement
  • 2,382 long tons (2,420 t) (standard)
  • 7,450 long tons (7,570 t) (full load)
Length388 ft 8 in (118.47 m)
Beam50 ft (15 m)
Draft21 ft 1 in (6.43 m)
Installed power
Propulsion1 × propeller
Speed11.5  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
  • 9 Officers
  • 96 Enlisted
Armament

USS Nicollet (AK-199/AG-93/AVS-6) was originally an Alamosa-class cargo ship acquired by the U.S. Navy shortly before the end of World War II and converted into a "Gwinnett"-class aviation stores issue ship, to carry aviation parts and spares, and to issue them to the US Pacific Fleet and activities as needed. Nicollet was named for Nicollet County, Minnesota.

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Construction

Nicollet was laid down under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2153, on 9 February 1944, by the Globe Shipbuilding Company, in Superior, Wisconsin. She received her name on 25 February 1944. She was launched on 31 July 1944, as AK-199; sponsored by Mrs. F. C. Hanson. She was floated down the Mississippi River and converted for Navy use by Samuelson Shipyard, Beaumont, Texas, and Brown Shipyard, Houston, Texas; redesignated AG–93, on 12 March 1945; and commissioned 27 April. [4]

Service history

After shakedown in the Gulf of Mexico, Nicollet was reclassified AVS–6, effective 25 May 1945. Steaming to the Pacific Ocean, she arrived in the forward area and was assigned to Commander, Air Forces, Subordinate Command Forward, Pacific Fleet. She operated out of Apra Harbor, Guam. [4]

Nicollet followed closely behind the invasion forces to supply newly acquired airstrips and aviation activities with spare parts and other needs. She salvaged goods, returned materials for repair and eventual re-use, and supplied aircraft carriers at sea. [4]

At the end of hostilities, she continued to support naval and marine air groups, both carrier and land-based. In April 1946, she returned to the US West Coast, via Pearl Harbor. Following a cruise to the Gulf of Mexico, she sailed again to the western Pacific Ocean. [4]

Defense fleet

Returning to San Francisco, California, she decommissioned and was returned to the War Shipping Administration (WSA), 17 June 1946, and laid up in the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, in Suisun Bay, California. She was struck from the Navy Register on 3 July 1946. [4]

Merchant service

Nicollet was sold to the Republic of France, on 30 June 1947. She was reflagged and renamed Djerada. [5] In 1959 she was transferred and reflagged in Morocco. [2] She was eventually scrapped in 1970 [3]

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