USS Marmora (IX-189)
The Soviet tanker SS Valerian Kuybyshev at San Francisco, California, ca. 1943. She served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946 as USS Marmora (IX-189). | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Marmora |
| Namesake | Variant spelling of Marmara, an island in the Sea of Marmara |
| Builder | American Shipbuilding Company, Seattle, Washington |
| Acquired | 13 December 1944 |
| Commissioned | 13 December 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 11 February 1946 |
| Fate | Delivered for scrapping 1 February 1947 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Tanker |
| Displacement | 14,000 tons (lim.) |
| Length | 436 ft 6 in (133.05 m) |
| Beam | 57 ft 2 in (17.42 m) |
| Draft | 24 ft 0 in (7.32 m) (lim.) |
| Installed power | 2,800 shp (2,100 kW) |
| Propulsion | one Hooven, Owens, Rentschler Company vertical triple expansion steam engine; three single-end Scotch boilers, 200psi Sat°; two recip-drive 20 kW 120 V DC Ship's Service Generators; one shaft |
| Speed | 9.0 knots (16.7 km/h) |
| Capacity | 7,700 bbl (~1,100 t) |
| Complement | 8 officers and 88 enlisted men |
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The second USS Marmora (IX-189) was a United States Navy tanker in commission from 1944 to 1946. She saw service as a mobile floating storage ship during and in the immediate aftermath of World War II.