USS Selinur

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USS Selinur (AKA-41) at anchor, circa 1945-1946 (NH 78591).jpg
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US flag 48 stars.svgUnited States
NameUSS Selinur
NamesakeThe asteroid Selinur
Builder Walsh-Kaiser Company, Providence, Rhode Island
Laid down18 January 1945
Launched28 March 1945
Commissioned21 April 1945
Decommissioned30 April 1946
Stricken8 May 1946
FateSold for scrapping, 15 July 1968
General characteristics
Class and type Artemis-class attack cargo ship
TypeS4–SE2–BE1
Displacement
  • 4,087 long tons (4,153 t) light
  • 7,080 long tons (7,194 t) full
Length426 ft (130 m)
Beam58 ft (18 m)
Draft16 ft (4.9 m)
Speed16.9 knots (31.3 km/h; 19.4 mph)
Complement303 officers and enlisted
Armament

USS Selinur (AKA-41) was an Artemis-class attack cargo ship in srvice with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1968.

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History

Selinur (AKA-41) was named after the minor planet 500 Selinur, which in turn was named for a character in Friedrich Theodor Vischer's 1879 novel Auch Einer. The ship was laid down on 18 January 1945 under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1902) by the Walsh-Kaiser Co., Inc., Providence, R.I.; launched on 28 March 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Wilton Carter; and commissioned on 21 April 1945.

After shakedown, Selinur departed Norfolk, Va., on 27 May 1945 with cargo and personnel for Hawaii, arriving at Honolulu on 18 June. After making cargo voyages to Midway, Hilo, Majuro, and Kwajalein, Selinur sailed from Pearl Harbor on 1 September with occupation troops for Japan and arrived at Sasebo on 22 September. She next sailed for Manila, whence she returned to Sasebo and reported for "Magic Carpet" duty on 20 October. The cargo vessel made two voyages bringing troops home, one from Sasebo and Okinawa and the other from Tacloban, P.I., before being released from "Magic Carpet" duty at San Francisco on 24 January 1946. She arrived at Philadelphia on 16 April for inactivation.

Decommissioning and fate

Selinur was decommissioned on 30 April, transferred to the Maritime Commission and simultaneously loaned to the Pennsylvania Nautical School as Keystone State. [1] She was struck from the Navy list on 8 May 1946. The ship was returned to the Maritime Commission in 1947 and laid up in the James River as a unit of the National Defense Reserve Fleet. She was sold by the Maritime Administration on 15 July 1968 to the Northern Metals Co., Philadelphia, for scrapping.

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References

  1. ↑ "Pennsylvania Nautical School Collection. Finding Aid 2010". J. Henderson Welles Archive, Independence Seaport Museum. 2016.
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