U.S.S. Spica
AK-16
1940
(Saratoga Model Shipyard SMY-36)
- Class: Sirius - 3 cargo ships of 1919
- Displacement: 5,800 tons
- Dimensions: 401 x 54 x 24.5 ft.
- Machinery: 2-shaft reciprocating (VTE), S.H.P. 2,500 = 11.5 knots
- Armament: 2-5"/51, 4-3"/50 A.A. guns (installed 1940)
- Complement: 197
- Builder: American International Shipbuilding Corp, Hog Island, PA
- Laid down: 15 Jun 1918
- Launched: 8 Aug 1918
- Acquired: 16 Nov 1921
- Commissioned: 1 Mar 1940
- Decommissioned: 2 Aug 1946
- Notes: Built under Shipping Board contract as freighter Shannock. Laid up in the Reserve Fleet at New York, later Charleston, from Jan 1927 to Feb 1940.
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