USS Cebu

History
USS Cebu (ARG-6) in Chesapeake Bay off the Bethlehem Steel Key Highway Yard, Baltimore, 18 April 1944, one day after completing her conversion to an Internal Combustion Engine Repair Ship. The ship is painted in Camouflage Measure 31, Design 6Ax.
United States
Name	Francis P. Duffy Cebu
Namesake	Francis P. Duffy Cebu
Ordered	as a Type EC2-S-C1 hull, MCE hull 1805
Builder	Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland
Yard number	2253
Laid down	21 September 1943
Launched	18 October 1943
Acquired	27 October 1943
Commissioned	15 April 1944
Decommissioned	30 June 1947
Identification	Hull symbol: ARG-6 Code letters: NPZL
Honors & awards	1 battle star (WWII)
Fate	Laid up, Pacific Reserve Fleet, Stockton, California, 30 September 1947 Transferred, National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, California, 4 August 1961 Sold for scrapping, 18 October 1973, withdrawn from fleet, 14 November 1973
General characteristics
Class & type	Luzon-class Internal Combustion Engine Repair Ship
Type	Type EC2-S-C1
Displacement	4,023 long tons (4,088 t) (light load) 14,350 long tons (14,580 t) (full load)
Length	441 ft 6 in (134.57 m)
Beam	56 ft 11 in (17.35 m)
Draft	23 ft (7.0 m)
Installed power	2 × Babcock & Wilcox header-type boilers, 220 psi (1,500 kPa) 450 °F (232 °C) 2,500 shp (1,900 kW)
Propulsion	1 × General Machine Corporation vertical triple expansion engines 1 x propeller
Speed	12.5 kn (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) (ship's trials)
Complement	31 officers, 552 enlisted
Armament	1 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber dual purpose (DP) gun 1 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber (DP) gun 2 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors anti-aircraft (AA) gun mounts 12 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon cannons AA mounts

USS Cebu (ARG-6) was a Luzon-class internal combustion engine repair ship that saw service in the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was named after Cebu, an island in the Philippines.