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U S NAVY 4th FLEET AT RECIFE

6)AKS 4 POLLUX

Photo www.navsource.org  By Darryl Baker

Specifications:

Displacement 7,350 t.(lt) 13,910 t.(fl)

Length 459' 2"

Beam 63'

Draft 26' 5"

Speed 17 kts.

Complement 315

Armament: One 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount. Four 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts

Propulsion steam turbine, single shaft, 6,000shp

After a shakedown cruise, Pollux operated as a unit of the Service Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet. She supplied forces afloat and Allied bases at Guantanamo, Cuba; St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Trinidad and Jamaica, West Indies; Colon, Panama Canal Zone; Recife and Bahia, Brazil; and Bermuda. She operated out of the East Coast ports of New York, Bayonne, Baltimore and Norfolk.

 

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