USS Osage (LSV-3)
USS Osage underway, wearing green-and-black camouflage, date and location unknown. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Osage |
| Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| Laid down | 1 June 1942, as AN-3 (Net laying ship) |
| Launched | 1 December 1943 |
| Commissioned | 30 December 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 16 May 1947 |
| Reclassified |
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| Stricken | 1 September 1961 |
| Honours & awards | 1 battle star (World War II) |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping, 11 December 1974 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Osage-class vehicle landing ship |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 458 ft (140 m) |
| Beam | 60 ft 2 in (18.34 m) |
| Draft | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Capacity | 19 × LVTs or 29 × DUKWs |
| Troops | 122 officers, 1236 enlisted men |
| Complement | 458 officers and enlisted men |
| Armament |
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USS Osage (AN-3/AP-108/LSV-3/MCS-3) was the lead ship of her class of vehicle landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was named after USS Osage, an "old monitor of the navy".
Laid down as netlayer AN-3 on 1 June 1942 at Pascagoula, Mississippi by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation; redesignated as a transport, AP-108, on 1 May 1943; launched on 1 December 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Dorothy K. McHenry, wife of Lt. John A. McHenry, Officer in Charge of Construction (for both U.S. Navy and Maritime Commission vessels), Pascagoula; redesignated as a vehicle landing ship, LSV-3, 21 April 1944; and commissioned on 30 December 1944.
There is no clear record of the period from the launch of the ship till her commissioning but at some point in time during that period, the ship departed her builder's yard and was transferred to the Tampa Shipbuilding Company to be completed