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Name | USS Windhover |
Builder | Savannah Machine & Foundry Co. |
Status | Contract cancelled |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Chanticleer-class submarine rescue ship |
Displacement | 1,780 long tons (1,809 t) |
Length | 251 ft 4 in (76.61 m) |
Draught | 14 ft 3 in (4.34 m) |
Speed | 16 knots (18 mph; 30 km/h) |
Complement | 102 officers and enlisted |
Armament | 2 × 3"/50 caliber guns |
USS Windhover (ASR-18) was projected as a Chanticleer-class submarine rescue ship and was to be built at Savannah, Georgia, by the Savannah Machine Foundry; however, because of Japan's collapse, the contract for her construction was cancelled on 12 August 1945.
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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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