![]() USS Wright (AZ-1) at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, April 1927
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Name | Wright |
Namesake | Orville Wright |
Builder | American International Shipbuilding Corporation, Hog Island, Pennsylvania |
Yard number | 680 |
Laid down | 5 February 1919 as Skaneateles |
Launched | 28 April 1920 |
Completed | 16 December 1921 |
Commissioned | 16 December 1921, as AZ-1 |
Decommissioned | 21 June 1946 |
Renamed | San Clemente (AG-79), 1 February 1945 |
Reclassified |
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Stricken | 1 July 1946 |
Honours and awards | 2 battle stars (World War II) |
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General characteristics | |
Type | Seaplane tender |
Displacement | 11,500 long tons (11,685 t) full load |
Length | 448 ft (137 m) |
Beam | 58 ft (18 m) |
Draft | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 15.3 knots (28.3 km/h; 17.6 mph) |
Complement | 228 officers and men |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | F5L and Curtiss NC-10 seaplanes |
USS Wright (AZ-1/AV-1) was a one-of-a-kind auxiliary ship in the United States Navy, named for aviation pioneer Orville Wright. Originally built as a kite balloon tender, she was converted into a seaplane tender after kite balloons were no longer used.