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USS BASSETT

(APD-73)

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APD-73 Deployments - Major Events

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Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
NOV 1943 Keel Date: 28 NOV 1943
at Consolidated Steel Corporation Orange TX
JAN 1944 Launch Date: 15 JAN 1944
FEB 1945 Commissioned: 23 FEB 1945
AUG 1945 - AUG 1945 Rescued 152 Survivors of USS Indianapolis
APR 1946 Decommissioned: 29 APR 1946
DEC 1950 - DEC 1950 Recommisioned - 7 December 1950
NOV 1957 - NOV 1957 Decommissioned - 26 November 1957

APD-73 General Specifications

Class: Charles Lawrence-class high-speed transport

Named for: Edgar R. Bassett

Complement: 186 Officers and Enlisted

Displacement: 1400 tons

Length: 306 feet

Beam: 36 feet 10 inches

Flank Speed: 24 knots

Range: 6 000 nautical miles

Final Disposition:Transferred to Colombia 6 September 1968