USS Cook (APD-130)
USS Cook (APD-130) in December 1956 | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Cook |
| Namesake | Andrew F. Cook, Jr. & Dallas H. Cook |
| Ordered | 1942 |
| Builder | Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan |
| Laid down | 7 May 1944 |
| Launched | 26 August 1944 |
| Commissioned | 25 April 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 31 May 1946 |
| Recommissioned | 6 October 1953 |
| Decommissioned | Date unknown |
| Stricken | 15 November 1969 |
| Honors & awards | 7 campaign stars (Vietnam) |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 24 July 1970 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Crosley-class high speed transport |
| Displacement | 1,450 long tons (1,473 t) |
| Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
| Beam | 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) |
| Range |
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| Boats & landing craft carried | 4 × LCVPs |
| Troops | 162 troops |
| Complement | 204 (12 officers, 192 enlisted) |
| Armament |
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USS Cook (APD-130) was a Crosley-class high speed transport of the United States Navy, named after two brothers: Second Lieutenant Andrew F. Cook, Jr. (1920–1942) and Sergeant Dallas H. Cook (1921–1942). Both served in the Marine Corps, and both were awarded the Navy Cross, posthumously.
Cook was laid down at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan on 7 May 1944 and partially completed as a Rudderow-class destroyer escort with the hull number DE-714. A month before launching, on 17 July 1944, it was decided that Cook would be completed as a high-speed transport, with the designation APD-130. She was launched on 26 August 1944, sponsored by Mrs. A. F. Cook, mother of Second Lieutenant Cook and Sergeant Cook. She was commissioned on 25 April 1945, at the Todd-Johnson Dry Dock Company in New Orleans, Louisiana.