AKS-20 Mercury

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: C2, [AK].

Builder: Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., New Jersey, U.S.A.

Launch date: 15 July 1939.

Commission date: 01 July 1942.

Decommission date: 28 May 1959.

Displacement ( tons ): 7.345 standard, 10.850 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 139,95 x 19 x 7,85

Main machinery: 2 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 1 x General Electric turbine ( 6.000 hp ), 1 x propeller.

Speed ( knots ): 15,5.

Complement: 178 ( 19 officers ).

Guns: 1 x 130mm/38, 4 x 76mm/50, 8 x 20mm.

Military lift: 9.055 barrels of liquid fuels, non-refrigerated 462,691 Cu. ft., refrigerated 28,864 Cu ft..

Callsign: NCYL ()

Comment: Ex - SS Lightning, Ex - SS Mocmarten, Ex - USS AK-42. Reclassified to AKS-20 Mercury 31st July 1945. Scrapped in 1975.

Awards (as of 28/05/1959):