USS Inca (IX-229)
USS Inca (Gamage) aground at Okinawa awaiting scrapping. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name |
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| Namesake | |
| Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
| Operator | |
| Builder | California Shipbuilding Corporation, Los Angeles, California |
| Laid down | 8 February 1943 as SS William B. Allison |
| Launched | 8 March 1943 |
| Completed | 24 March 1943 |
| Acquired | 24 March 1943 |
| Commissioned | 30 July 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 12 March 1946 |
| In service | 19 August 1943 |
| Out of service | 8 February 1946 |
| Renamed |
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| Stricken | 12 March 1946 |
| Honors & awards | Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping 19 February 1948 to China Merchants & Engineers, Inc. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | MCtype EC2-S-C1 hull |
| Type | Liberty Ship |
| Displacement | 4,023 tons(lt) 14,250 tons(fl) |
| Length | 441 ft 6 in (134.57 m) |
| Beam | 56 ft 11 in (17.35 m) |
| Draft | 27 ft 9 in (8.46 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Range | 17,000 mi (27,000 km) |
| Capacity | 9,140 tons cargo |
| Complement | 41 |
| Armament | 1 × Stern-mounted 4 in (100 mm) deck gun |
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USS Inca, a 3,381-ton (light displacement) "Liberty" ship, was launched in March 1943 in Los Angeles, California, and entered merchant service later the same month as SS William B. Allison, MCE hull 724. Two years later she would be taken into US Navy as a stores ship and renamed USS Inca (IX-229). For much of her service as Inca she was also named USS Gamage (IX-227) because of bureaucratic confusion.