USS Beagle (IX-112)
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| United States | |
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| Ordered | as a Type T1-S-C3 hull, MCE hull 1901 |
| Builder | California Shipbuilding Corporation, Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California |
| Laid down | 27 September 1943 |
| Launched | 29 October 1943 |
| Commissioned | 20 November 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 13 June 1946 |
| Renamed | Beagle, 27 October 1943 |
| Stricken | 3 July 1946 |
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| Honors & awards | 1 × battle star |
| Fate |
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| United States | |
| Name | Edison Skipper |
| Owner | Edison Tanker Corporation, Inc., New York City |
| Acquired | 14 July 1948 |
| Fate | Sold, December 1954 |
| Liberia | |
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| Acquired | December 1954 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1964 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Armadillo class tanker |
| Type | Type T1-S-C3 |
| Displacement | 14,500 long tons (14,700 t) |
| Length | 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m) |
| Beam | 56 ft 11 in (17.35 m) |
| Draught | 28 ft 4 in (8.64 m) |
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| Speed | 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement | 79 officers and men |
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USS Beagle (IX-112), was an Armadillo class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel. She was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the beagle, a breed of small, short-coated hunting hound.