USS Pitkin (AK-204)
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| Name: | Pitkin |
| Namesake: | Pitkin County, Colorado |
| Ordered: | MC hull 2158 |
| Builder: | Globe Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisconsin |
| Laid down: | date unknown |
| Launched: | date unknown |
| Acquired: | May 1945 |
| Commissioned: | returned to the Maritime Commission prior to commissioning |
| Struck: | date unknown |
| Identification: | Hull symbol:AK-204 |
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| Status: | fate unknown |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class & type: | Alamosa-class cargo ship |
| Type: | C1-M-AV1 |
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| Length: | 388 ft 8 in (118.47 m) |
| Beam: | 50 ft (15 m) |
| Draft: | 21 ft 1 in (6.43 m) |
| Installed power: | 1,750 shp (1,300 kW) |
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| Speed: | 11.5 kn (13.2 mph; 21.3 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 3,945 t (3,883 long tons) DWT |
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USS Pitkin (AK-204) was an Alamosa-class cargo ship that was constructed for the U.S. Navy during the closing period of World War II. By the time she was scheduled for commissioning, the war’s end caused her to be declared “excess to needs” and she was returned to the U.S. Government and struck by the Navy.
Career
Pitkin (AK–204) was laid down under Maritime Commission contract by Globe Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisconsin. She was transferred to the Navy in May 1945. Pitkin was scheduled for commissioning. However, because of the Allied victory in the Pacific Ocean theatre of operations, her commissioning was cancelled. Pitkin was ordered returned to the U.S. Maritime Commission for disposal. She was subsequently renamed Coastal Observer. Her subsequent fate is not known.
