6-546: USS Selinur (AKA-41) was an Artemis -class attack cargo ship in srvice with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1968. Selinur (AKA-41) was named after the minor planet 500 Selinur , which in turn was named for a character in Friedrich Theodor Vischer 's 1879 novel Auch Einer . The ship was laid down on 18 January 1945 under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1902) by
12-753: The Walsh-Kaiser Co., Inc. , Providence, R.I. ; launched on 28 March 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Wilton Carter; and commissioned on 21 April 1945. After shakedown, Selinur departed Norfolk, Va. , on 27 May 1945 with cargo and personnel for Hawaii , arriving at Honolulu on 18 June. After making cargo voyages to Midway , Hilo , Majuro , and Kwajalein , Selinur sailed from Pearl Harbor on 1 September with occupation troops for Japan and arrived at Sasebo on 22 September. She next sailed for Manila , whence she returned to Sasebo and reported for "Magic Carpet" duty on 20 October. The cargo vessel made two voyages bringing troops home, one from Sasebo and Okinawa and
18-494: The latter to land weapons, supplies, and troops on enemy shores during amphibious operations . Compared to other classes of AKAs, the Artemis class had a much shallower draft , and a lower main deck aft. All these ships were built on the same standard hull design, but there were some differences from ship to ship: The hull was a S-Type Special-Purpose Ships, same as S3-M2-K2 Landing Ship, Tank . The armament varied, as did that of
24-583: The other from Tacloban , P.I., before being released from "Magic Carpet" duty at San Francisco on 24 January 1946. She arrived at Philadelphia on 16 April for inactivation. Selinur was decommissioned on 30 April, transferred to the Maritime Commission and simultaneously loaned to the Pennsylvania Nautical School as Keystone State . She was struck from the Navy list on 8 May 1946. The ship
30-453: The other ships of the day. During 1944–1945, the 5"/38-caliber gun was recognized as the best gun for the dual role of antiaircraft and naval gunfire support , and the 40 mm gun was seen as the best antiaircraft gun. The older 20 mm and .50 caliber guns had been recognized to be of limited value, and were being phased out, though they appeared on some of these ships. The 20 mm guns were later removed from all of them, but it
36-838: Was returned to the Maritime Commission in 1947 and laid up in the James River as a unit of the National Defense Reserve Fleet . She was sold by the Maritime Administration on 15 July 1968 to the Northern Metals Co., Philadelphia, for scrapping. Artemis-class attack cargo ship The Artemis -class attack cargo ships were a series of attack cargo ships (AKAs) built by Walsh-Kaiser Company of Cranston and Providence, Rhode Island , during World War II . Like all AKAs, they were designed to carry combat loaded military cargo and landing craft , and to use
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