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bold">Launched</td><td>9 April 1945</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Commissioned</td><td>9 July 1945</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Decommissioned</td><td>26 April 1947</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Stricken</td><td>1 April 1960</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Identification</td><td>APB-45</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Fate</td><td>Sunk as a target by South African military 1968-70</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Notes</td><td>Ship International Radio Callsign: NBCK</td></tr> <tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">General characteristics</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Class and type</td><td><a href="/wiki/Benewah-class_barracks_ship" title="Benewah-class barracks ship"><i>Benewah</i>-class</a> <a href="/wiki/Barracks_ship" title="Barracks ship">barracks ship</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Displacement</td><td>4,000 tons</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td>328 ft (100 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>50 ft (15 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Draft</td><td>11 ft 2 in (3.40 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Propulsion</td><td>2 × General Motors 12-567A diesel engines</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Speed</td><td>12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Complement</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">12 Officers, 125 Enlisted (Crew)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">28 Officers, 275 Enlisted (Troop Complement)</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armament</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × quad <a href="/wiki/Bofors_40_mm_Automatic_Gun_L/60" class="mw-redirect" title="Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60">40 mm</a> AA guns</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">20 × <a href="/wiki/M2_Browning" title="M2 Browning">0.5 in (12.7 mm)</a> and <a href="/wiki/M1919_Browning_machine_gun" title="M1919 Browning machine gun">0.3 in (7.6 mm)</a> cal machine guns</li> </ul></td></tr> </tbody></table> <p><b>USS <i>Blackford</i> (APB-45)</b> was a <a href="/wiki/Benewah-class_barracks_ship" title="Benewah-class barracks ship"><i>Benewah</i>-class</a> self-propelled <a href="/wiki/Barracks_ship" title="Barracks ship">barracks 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She was decommissioned in April 1947 and sold for merchant service. In c. 1968-1970, she was sunk as a target by the <a href="/wiki/South_African_Military" class="mw-redirect" title="South African Military">South African Military</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ship_history">Ship history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Blackford&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Ship history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Authorized as <i>LST-1111</i>, she was redesignated as General Issue Stores Ship <i>Blackford</i> AKS-16 on 8 December 1944. On 2 January 1945, her keel was laid down at Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co., and on 6 March 1945 she was once more redesignated, this time as Self-Propelled Barracks Ship <i>Blackford</i> APB-45. 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