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Ancon

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
AGC4 (ex-AP66)	Ancon		Bethlehem, Quincy		24.9.1938	6/1939 // 4.1943	stricken 4.1946

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	9946
Displacement full, t	13144
Length, m	150.3
Breadth, m	19.5
Draught, m	8.00
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Bethlehem geared steam turbines, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	10000
Max speed, kts	18
Fuel, t	oil 1186
Endurance, nm(kts)	10852(15)
Armament	2 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 12, 4 x 2 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 14 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4
Military load	6 LCVP, 4 LCPL, 2 LCPR, 2 LCC, 195 HQ persons
Electronic equipment	presumably SA or SC, SG, SK, SM radars
Complement	707

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Project history

Former s/s of Panama Rail Road Co., acquired by Army in January 1942 and used as transport (in the Navy from August, 1942 as AP66). Ship was converted to AGC from February till April 1943.

Modernizations

None.

1/1946: 2 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 4 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 14 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, SA or SC, SG, SK, SM radars

Naval service

No significant events.