USS Great Lakes (AD-30)

History


Name:	USS Great Lakes
Builder:	Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle, Washington
Laid down:	16 April 1945
Fate:	Cancelled 7 January 1946
General characteristics
Type:	Shenandoah-class destroyer tender
Displacement:	11,755 long tons (11,944 t) light 16,880 long tons (17,151 t) full
Length:	492 ft (150 m)
Beam:	69 ft 6 in (21.18 m)
Draft:	28 ft (8.5 m)
Propulsion:	Steam turbine, single propeller
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement:	977 officers and enlisted
Armament:	2 × single 5"/38 caliber gun mounts 8 × 40 mm AA guns 22 × 20 mm AA guns

USS Great Lakes (AD-30) was a planned Shenandoah class destroyer tender of the United States Navy.

Great Lakes was laid down on 16 April 1945 at the Todd Pacific Shipyard in Seattle. She was cancelled on 7 January 1946, when she was around 20% complete.^[1]

References

↑ "Great Lakes (AD-30)". NavSource. Retrieved 1 April 2015.

Shenandoah-class destroyer tenders

United States Navy

Completed	Shenandoah Yellowstone Grand Canyon Isle Royale Tidewater Bryce Canyon

Canceled	Great Lakes New England Canopus Arrowhead

Indonesian Navy

Dumai (ex-Tidewater)

Preceded by: Klondike class
Followed by: Samuel Gompers class

List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy

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