USS Black Hawk (AD-9)
USS Black Hawk (ID # 2140) Moored at Inverness, Scotland, in September 1918, while serving as Mine Force repair ship and flagship, and painted with a camouflage pattern. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Black Hawk |
| Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia |
| Cost | $99,751 (hull & machinery) |
| Launched | 1913, as SS Santa Catalina |
| Acquired | by purchase, 3 December 1917 |
| Commissioned | 15 May 1918 |
| Decommissioned | 15 August 1946 |
| Reclassified | AD-9, November 1920 |
| Honours & awards | 1 battle star (WWII) |
| Fate | Transferred to Maritime Commission, 4 September 1947 Sold for scrap, 17 March 1948 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Destroyer tender |
| Displacement | 5,690 long tons (5,781 t) |
| Length | 420 ft 2 in (128.07 m) |
| Beam | 53 ft 10 in (16.41 m) |
| Draft | 28 ft 5 in (8.66 m) |
| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement | 471 |
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USS Black Hawk (AD-9) was a destroyer tender.