USS Starlight
USS Starlight (AP-175) | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Starlight |
| Builder | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina |
| Laid down | 9 October 1943 |
| Launched | 23 December 1943 |
| Commissioned | 15 February 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 12 August 1946 |
| Renamed | SS Badger State |
| Stricken | 28 August 1946 |
| Honors & awards | 4 battle stars (World War II) |
| Fate |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Storm King-class transport |
| Displacement | 13,910 long tons (14,133 t) full |
| Length | 459 ft 2 in (139.95 m) |
| Beam | 63 ft (19 m) |
| Draft | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
| Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
| Troops | 1,375 |
| Complement | 360 |
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USS Starlight (AP-175) was a United States Navy Storm King-class auxiliary transport in commission from 1944 to 1945. She was designed as a troop carrier. After her naval service she became the civilian cargo ship SS Badger State. She sank in January 1970 after an explosion of a cargo of munitions on December 26, 1969, with the loss of 26 of her crew of 40.