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  • Displacement: 14,900 tons (full load)
  • Length: 469'
  • Beam: 63'
  • Draft: 27'6"
  • Speed: 15.5 knots (max)
  • Armament: 1 5"/38 DP; 4 3"/50 DP; 12 20mm
  • Complement:
  • Cargo: 5,500 DWT
  • Laid down, 12 October 1942, as SSIberville, a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-E1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC 481) at Gulf Shipbuilding Co., Chickasaw, AL
  • Launched, 12 June 1943
  • Placed in partial Commission for transit to her fitting out yard at Bethlehem Steel Co., Baltimore MD
  • Completed as a Stores Ship and Commissioned USS Hyades (AF-28), 1 August 1944
  • Decommissioned (date unknown)
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 October 1976
  • Laid up in the Reserve Fleet
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 13 October 1983
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • Geared turbine engines, single screw, 6,000 hp
 

 
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