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US Navy USS WRIGHT CC-2 booklet of general plans Command ship 1965 original
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Description
Booklet of General Plans for the US Navy Command ship USS WRIGHT CC-2. Dated October 1965. 19 plans bound together. See photos for more data and list of plans. This is an original that came from either the ship or home shipyard. Very rare. Exceptionally clean copy..
Displacement 14,500 Tons, Dimensions, 683' 7" (oa) x 76' 8" x 28' (Max)
Armament 40 x 40mm, 32x 20mm, 48 Aircraft.
Armor, 4" Belt, 2 1/2" Deck.
Machinery, 120,000 SHP; G.E. Geared Turbines, 4 screws
Speed, 33 Knots, Crew 1787.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down on 21 Aug 1944 at Camden, N.J., by the New York Shipbuilding Corp.; launched on 1 Sep 1945, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on 9 Feb 1947. Decommissioned on 15 Mar 1956. During her time in reserve,
Wright
was reclassified on 15 May 1959, an auxiliary aircraft transport, AVT-7. Recommissioned at Puget Sound on 11 May 1963 as a command ship, designated CC-2. Ultimately decommissioned on 27 May 1970,
Wright
departed Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA, 5 Apr 1974, under tow of USS
Edenton
(ATS-1) for further transfer to INACTSHIPFAC Philadelphia, PA (thanks to Ron Reeves for the info).
FATE:
Stricken from the Navy List on 1 Dec 1977, and sold by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping on 1 Aug 1980.
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