Alleghany, 1942
WIX
Builder: Federal Shipbuilding Company, Kearny, New Jersey
Length: 350' 7"
Beam: 52' 1"
Draft: 19'
Displacement: 14,460 (fl)
Cost: ?
Launched: 1923
Commissioned: 21 May 1942 (USCG)
Decommissioned: 31 August 1941
Disposition: Returned to the Maritime Service
Machinery: 1 4-cylinder triple-expansion steam engine; 2,700 IHP; single propeller
Complement: 125 "administrative personnel"; 400 trainees
Armament: None
Cutter History:
Alleghany was a former coastal passenger-cargo vessel taken over by the Maritime Service from her owners, Merchants & Miners Transportation Company, (along with her sister-ship Berkshire), and was turned over to the Coast Guard for the training of merchant mariners. She was returned to the jurisdiction of the Maritime Commission on 31 August 1942.
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