USS Pinellas (AK-202)

USS Pinellas (AK-202) was an Alamosa-class cargo ship that was constructed for the U.S. Navy during the closing period of World War II. By the time she was scheduled for commissioning, the war's end caused her to be declared "excess to needs" and she was returned to the U.S. Government and struck by the Navy.

History
United States
Name:
  • Coastal Stevedore (1944–1945, 1945–)
  • Pinellas (1945)
Namesake: Pinellas County, Florida
Ordered: as type (C1-M-AV1) hull, MC hull 2156[1]
Builder: Globe Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisconsin
Yard number: 123[1]
Laid down: date unknown
Launched: date unknown
Completed: 3 December 1945
Acquired: 3 March 1945
Commissioned: returned to the US Maritime Commission (MARCOM) prior to commissioning
Stricken: date unknown
Identification:
Fate: returned to MARCOM, 3 December 1945
United States
Name: Coastal Stevedore
Owner: MARCOM
Operator:
  • A. H. Bull & Company (1945)
  • Bull Insular Lines, Inc. (1946)
  • A. L. Burbank & Company (1947)
Acquired: 3 December 1945
In service: 3 December 1945
Out of service: 2 December 1947
Fate: sold, 13 January 1948
Cuba
Name: Coastal Stevedor
Acquired: 1 January 1948
Identification: IMO number: 5033909
Fate: scrapped, 1977[1]
General characteristics [2]
Class and type: Alamosa-class cargo ship
Type: C1-M-AV1
Tonnage: 5,032 long tons deadweight (DWT)[1]
Displacement:
  • 2,382 long tons (2,420 t) (standard)
  • 7,450 long tons (7,570 t) (full load)
Length: 388 ft 8 in (118.47 m)
Beam: 50 ft (15 m)
Draft: 21 ft 1 in (6.43 m)
Installed power:
Propulsion: 1 × propeller
Speed: 11.5 kn (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)
Capacity:
  • 3,945 t (3,883 long tons) DWT
  • 9,830 cu ft (278 m3) (refrigerated)
  • 227,730 cu ft (6,449 m3) (non-refrigerated)
Complement:
  • 15 Officers
  • 70 Enlisted
Armament:

Construction

Pinellas was laid down under Maritime Commission contract, MC hull 2156, by Globe Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisconsin. She was transferred to the Navy in March 1945. Pinellas was scheduled for commissioning. However, because of the Allied victory in the Pacific Ocean theatre of operations, her commissioning was cancelled.[2]

Merchant service

Pinellas was ordered returned to the US Maritime Commission for disposal. Her name subsequently reverted Coastal Stevedore.[3]

Coastal Stevedor was used by several shipping companies from 1945–1948, before being sold to the government of Cuba.[2][3]

On 1 January 1948, she was sold to Cuba.[3] She was scrapped in 1977.[1]

Notes
    Citations
    1. C1 Cargo Ships 2009.
    2. Navsource 2011.
    3. MARAD.

    Bibliography

    Online resources

    • "C1 Cargo Ships". www.ShipbuildingHistory.com. 28 August 2009. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
    • "USS Pinellas (AK-202)". Navsource.org. 24 June 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
    • "Coastal Competitor". United States Department of Transportation. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
    • Photo gallery of USS Pinellas (AK-202) at NavSource Naval History


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