SS Rebecca Lukens
Rebecca Lukens off Saipan or Iwo Jima | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Rebecca Lukens |
| Namesake | Rebecca Lukens |
| Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
| Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 1551 |
| Builder | J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida |
| Cost | $1,333,920 |
| Yard number | 33 |
| Way number | 6 |
| Laid down | 7 January 1944 |
| Launched | 4 March 1944 |
| Completed | 10 April 1944 |
| In service | 1944-1946 |
| Fate | Transferred to the Army Transport Service (ATS), 10 April 1944 |
| United States | |
| Name |
|
| Namesake | Herbert A. Dargue |
| Owner | WSA |
| Operator | ATS |
| Acquired | 10 April 1944 |
| Commissioned | 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 1946 |
| In service | 1944-1946 |
| Renamed | April 1945 |
| Refit | Converted to an Aircraft Repair Unit (Floating) (ARU(F)) |
| Identification | ARU(F)-2 |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping, 3 September 1970 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type |
|
| Tonnage | 7,237 short tons (6,565 t) |
| Displacement | 4,474 short tons (4,059 t) |
| Length | 441 feet (134 m) |
| Beam | 57 feet (17 m) |
| Draft | 28-foot (8.5 m) draft |
| Installed power | triple-expansion reciprocating steam engines |
| Propulsion | 500 horsepower (370 kW) steam engine |
| Speed | 11 knots (13 mph; 20 km/h) |
| Capacity | 4,380 net short tons (3,970 t) |
| Complement | |
| Armament | stern-mounted 4-in deck gun 3 x 20-mm (0.79-in) Oerlikon AA guns |
| Notes | |
| General characteristics ARU(F) | |
| Type | Aircraft Repair Unit (Floating) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | |
| Complement |
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| Aircraft carried | 4 × Sikorsky R-4s |
| Aviation facilities | 3 × Landing platforms |
SS Rebecca Lukens was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Rebecca Lukens, the owner and manager of the iron and steel mill which became the Lukens Steel Company of Coatesville, Pennsylvania.
She was converted in 1944 at Point Clear, Alabama into an Aircraft Repair Unit (Floating) and transferred to the Army Transport Service (ATS), after which she was renamed Major General Herbert A. Dargue, for Herbert Dargue, a pioneering military aviator in the United States Army.