USS Ruchamkin
USS Ruchamkin ca. 1965 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Ruchamkin |
| Namesake | Seymour D. Ruchamkin |
| Builder |
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| Laid down | 14 February 1944 as Rudderow-class destroyer escort |
| Launched | 15 June 1944 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Mary Ruchamkin |
| Identification | DE-228 |
| Commissioned | 16 September 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 27 February 1946 |
| Reclassified | APD-89, 17 July 1944 |
| Recommissioned | 9 March 1951 |
| Decommissioned | 13 August 1957 |
| Recommissioned | 18 November 1961 |
| Reclassified | LPR-89, 1 January 1969 |
| Decommissioned | 24 November 1969 |
| Stricken | 31 October 1977 |
| Honors & awards | Navy Unit Commendation for 1965 Dominican crisis |
| Fate | Transferred to Colombia, 24 November 1969 |
| Colombia | |
| Name | ARC Córdoba |
| Acquired | 24 November 1969 |
| Stricken | 1980 |
| Identification | DT-15 |
| Status | Museum ship at Jaime Duque Park |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Crosley-class high speed transport |
| Displacement | 2,130 long tons (2,164 t) full |
| Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
| Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
| Draft | 12 ft 7 in (3.84 m) |
| Speed | 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) |
| Troops | 162 |
| Complement | 204 |
| Armament |
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| Notes | 2 mark 37 torpedo tubes |
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USS Ruchamkin (APD-89), ex-DE-228, later LPR-89, was a United States Navy high-speed transport in commission from 1945 to 1946, from 1951 to 1957, and from 1961 to 1969. She subsequently served as ARC Córdoba (DT 15) in the Colombian Navy, until 1980; although scrapped, her hull and superstructure were re-erected in a leisure park near Bogotá.