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Welcome to the USS Hyades AF-28 Web site |
- 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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