USS Fortune (IX-146)
City Of Elwood on 18 September 1943, at New York, United States Coast Guard photo | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | City of Elwood |
| Owner | United States Shipping Board (USSB) |
| Operator | American Pioneer Line |
| Ordered | as USSB Design 1037 ship freighter |
| Builder | Doullet & Williams, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Yard number | 1910 |
| Laid down | 1921 |
| Launched | 18 March 1921 |
| In service | April 1921 |
| Out of service | 4 December 1941 |
| Identification | O.N. 220962 |
| Fate | Transferred to United States Lines, 5 December 1941 |
| United States | |
| Name | City of Elwood |
| Owner | United States Lines |
| In service | 5 December 1941 |
| Out of service | 16 February 1944 |
| Fate | Transferred to US Navy, 16 February 1944 |
USS Fortune (AVS-2), at anchor, photographed after the ship was reclassified as "AVS-2", in May 1945 | |
| United States | |
| Name | Fortune |
| Acquired | 16 February 1944 |
| Commissioned | 19 February 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 18 October 1945 |
| Reclassified | Aviation Stores Issue (AVS), 25 May 1945 |
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| Fate | Sold for scrapping, 3 August 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Design 1037 ship |
| Tonnage | 6,171 GT |
| Displacement | 13,250 long tons (13,460 t) |
| Length | 411 ft 9 in (125.50 m) |
| Beam | 55 ft (17 m) |
| Draft | 27 ft 2 in (8.28 m) |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 11.8 kn (21.9 km/h; 13.6 mph) |
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| Armament | |
USS Fortune (IX-146/AVS-2) was a US Navy aviation stores issue ship of World War II. Originally built as City of Elwood, a United States Shipping Board (USSB), Design 1037 freighter, she acquired by the Navy 16 February 1944, and commissioned 19 February 1944. She was reclassified AVS-2, on 25 May 1945.