USS Mahanna

History
United States
Laid down	date unknown
Launched	1919
Acquired	20 September 1920
Commissioned	29 September 1920
Decommissioned	15 September 1921
Stricken	2 December 1921
Fate	Returned to the shipping board
General characteristics
Displacement	6,125 tons (lt.)
Length	286 ft (87 m)
Beam	45 ft (14 m)
Draught	23 ft 6 in (7.16 m)
Speed	11 knots
Complement	44
Armament	none

USS Mahanna (AG-8) was a Mahanna-class cargo ship. She was acquired by the U.S. Navy as a miscellaneous auxiliary cargo vessel, to be used for transporting general stores to Navy units in the field.

Mahanna was a wooden steam freighter, which was built by McEachern & Co., Astoria, Oregon, in 1919. She was operated by the U.S. Shipping Board (USSB), transferred to the Navy at Norfolk, Virginia, on 20 September 1920, and then commissioned at Norfolk on 29 September 1920.

Service with the Atlantic Fleet

Mahanna was assigned to the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. She sailed out of Norfolk for survey missions to the West Indies during the next year, cruising between the Caribbean and the U.S. East Coast ports with other survey ships.

Decommissioning

She was decommissioned at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on 15 September 1921. Mahanna was returned to the United States Shipping Board (USSB) on 2 December 1921 and struck from the Navy list.

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

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