History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Zenobia |
Namesake | The asteroid Zenobia |
Builder | Walsh-Kaiser Company, Providence, Rhode Island |
Laid down | 12 May 1945 |
Launched | 6 July 1945 |
Commissioned | 6 August 1945 |
Decommissioned | 7 May 1946 |
Stricken | 30 November 1946 |
Fate | Sold to Chile, 9 December 1946 |
Chile | |
Name | Presidente Pinto |
Acquired | 9 December 1946 |
Decommissioned | 1962 |
Fate | Believed scrapped about 1974 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Artemis-class attack cargo ship |
Type | S4–SE2–BE1 |
Displacement |
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Length | 426 ft (130 m) |
Beam | 58 ft (18 m) |
Draft | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
Speed | 16.9 knots (31.3 km/h; 19.4 mph) |
Complement | 303 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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USS Zenobia (AKA-52) was an Artemis-class attack cargo ship in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946. She was then sold to Chile, where she served as Presidente Pinto (AKA-41) until 1966. She was scrapped in 1974.
Zenobia (AKA-62) was named after minor planet 840 Zenobia. Zenobia was also the name of the Queen of Palmyra who reigned from 267 to 272. The ship was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1913) on 12 May 1945 at Providence, R.I., by the Walsh-Kaiser Co., Inc.; launched on 6 July 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Lillian V. MacDonald; and commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on 6 August 1945.
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Although allocated to the Amphibious Force of the Atlantic Fleet on 1 April 1946, Zenobia's days as a United States naval vessel were numbered. She reported to the Commandant, 3rd Naval District, on 7 April and was decommissioned exactly one month later, on 7 May, at Brooklyn, N.Y. Struck from the Navy list on 30 November 1946, Zenobia was transferred at Brooklyn to the government of the Republic of Chile on 9 December 1946.
Renamed Presidente Pinto, the former Navy attack cargo ship served the Chilean Navy as a transport through the late 1960s, including being the yearly supply ship for Easter Island and figuring prominently in scientific expeditions there, [1] [2] and ended her active career as a training ship for midshipmen. She was transferred to "harbor duties" in 1968 — probably serving as a floating barracks or accommodation ship — and was replaced as training ship by the four-masted schooner Esmeralda. Presidente Pinto was probably scrapped in about 1974.
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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .The entry can be found here.