USNS Rollins (T-AG-189)
| History | |
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| Name: | SS High Point Victory |
| Builder: | Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland |
| Laid down: | 10 July 1945 |
| Launched: | 6 September 1945 |
| In service: | 28 September 1945 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1993 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Type: | Type VC2-S-AP2 Victory ship |
| Displacement: | |
| Length: | 455 ft (139 m) |
| Beam: | 62 ft (19 m) |
| Draft: | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Propulsion: |
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| Speed: | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) |
USNS Rollins (T-AG-189) was one of 12 ships scheduled to be acquired by the United States Navy in February 1966 and converted into Forward Depot Ships and placed into service with the Military Sea Transport Service, The High Point Victory (MCV-851) was chosen for this conversion and assigned the name Rollins but the program was canceled and the ships were not acquired by the Navy.
References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
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