USS Pavlic
USS Pavlic in San Diego Bay, California, in mid-1946. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Pavlic |
| Namesake | Lieutenant Commander Milton F. Pavlic (1909-1942), U.S. Navy Purple Heart recipient |
| Builder | |
| Laid down | 21 September 1943 |
| Launched | 18 December 1943 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Milton F. Pavlic |
| Commissioned | 29 December 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 15 November 1946 |
| Reclassified | From destroyer escort (DE-669) to high-speed transport (APD-70) 27 June 1944 |
| Stricken | 1 April 1967 |
| Honors & awards | One battle star for World War II service |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping 1 July 1968 |
| Notes | Laid down as Buckley-class destroyer escort USS Pavlic (DE-669) |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Charles Lawrence-class high-speed transport |
| Displacement | 1,400 long tons (1,422 t) |
| Length | 306 ft (93 m) overall |
| Beam | 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) maximum |
| Installed power | 12,000 shaft horsepower (16 megawatts) |
| Propulsion | Two boilers; two GE steam turbines (turbo-electric transmission) |
| Speed | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
| Range | 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Troops | 162 |
| Complement | 186 |
| Armament |
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USS Pavlic (APD-70) was built by Dravo Corporation at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a Buckley-class destroyer escort. Pavlic was launched 18 December 1943 and towed to Texas for refitting as a United States Navy high-speed transport. Pavlic was in commission from 1944 to 1946, serving in the Okinawa campaign as a radar picket ship. Pavlic was decommissioned 15 November 1946. After more than 20 years of inactivity in reserve, she was stricken from the Navy List on 1 April 1967. On 1 July 1968, she was sold for scrapping to North American Smelting Company.