USS Buckeye
Buckeye as a salvage training hulk, in 1979 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Buckeye |
| Namesake | A tree resembling the horse chestnut |
| Ordered | as Cottonwood (YN-8) |
| Builder | Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon |
| Laid down | 17 March 1941, as Buckeye (YN-8) |
| Launched | 26 July 1941 |
| Sponsored by | Miss Sara Ann Tefler |
| Commissioned | 26 December 1942 as USS Buckeye (YN-8) at Dutch Harbor, Alaska |
| Decommissioned | March 1947 at Subic Bay, Philippine Islands |
| In service | 5 September 1941 |
| Renamed | Buckeye, 16 October 1940 |
| Reclassified | AN-13, 1 January 1944 |
| Stricken | 1 July 1963 |
| Homeport | Tiburon, California |
| Fate | Transferred in 1963 to the U.S. Maritime Administration's National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benicia, California |
| Notes | Reacquired by the Navy,5 May 1976, for use as a salvage training hulk |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Aloe-class net laying ship |
| Tonnage | 660 tons |
| Displacement | 700 tons |
| Length | 163 ft 2 in (49.73 m) |
| Beam | 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m) |
| Draft | 11 ft 8 in (3.56 m) |
| Propulsion | diesel engine, single propeller |
| Speed | 12.5 knots |
| Complement | 48 officers and enlisted |
| Armament | one single 3 in (76 mm) dual purpose gun mount; two 0.5 in (12.7 mm). machine guns |
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USS Buckeye (AN-13/YN-8) was an Aloe-class net laying ship in service with the United States Navy from 1942 to 1947. In the late 1970s and 1980s, she was used as a salvage training hulk.