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Displacement 4,087 t.(lt) 7,080 t.(fl) Length 426' Beam 58' Draft 16'5" Speed 16.9
kts. Complement 303 Armament one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount four dual 40mm AA gun mounts ten
single 20mm AA gun mounts Cargo Capacity 4,450 DWT Boats one LCP(L) twelve LCVPs eight LCM(3)s Troop
Accommodations 264 Propulsion two turbo-electric engines, twin shafts, 6,000shp
Artemis Class Attack Cargo Ship: Laid Down as a Maritime Commission type (S4-SE2-BE1)
hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1895) at Welsh-Kaiser Co. Providence, RI; Launched, 5 January 1945; Commissioned
USS Pamina (AKA-34), 10 February 1945; Reclassified an Auxiliary Geographical Survey Ship and renamed, USS Tanner (AGS-15),
15 May 1946 with the addition of four large sound-boats, a modern drafting room, print shop and photographic laboratory and
a helicopter flight deck. Decommissioned 14 July 1969; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 August 1969; Returned to the
Maritime Administration; Final Disposition, scrapped in 1970.
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