USS Veritas

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History
United States
Name	USS Veritas
Namesake	The asteroid Veritas
Builder	Walsh-Kaiser Company, Providence, Rhode Island
Laid down	26 April 1945
Launched	16 June 1945
Commissioned	19 July 1945
Decommissioned	21 February 1946
Stricken	12 April 1946
Fate	Scrapped 1967
General characteristics
Class and type	Artemis-class attack cargo ship
Type	S4–SE2–BE1
Displacement	4,087 long tons (4,153 t) light 7,080 long tons (7,194 t) full
Length	426 ft (130 m)
Beam	58 ft (18 m)
Draft	16 ft (4.9 m)
Speed	16.9 knots (31.3 km/h; 19.4 mph)
Complement	303 officers and enlisted
Armament	1 × 5"/38 caliber gun mount 4 × twin 40 mm gun mounts 10 × 20 mm gun mounts

USS Veritas (AKA-50) was an Artemis-class attack cargo ship in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1967.

Veritas (AKA-50) was named after the minor planet 490 Veritas. She was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1911) on 26 April 1945 at Providence, R.I., by the Walsh-Kaiser Co., Inc.; launched on 16 June 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Fred B. Smith; and commissioned on 19 July 1945.

Into the fall of 1945, Veritas operated along the East Coast, making cargo runs which took her as far north as Boston and ranged south to Hampton Roads, Va. After loading cargo at Norfolk from 22 October to 26 October, Veritas got underway on the 26th for Bermuda and the only duty which took her away from the eastern seaboard of the United States.

The cargo vessel returned to Norfolk and transported cargo to Baltimore in December and made stops at Bayonne, N.J., and New York City before heading for Hampton Roads early in 1946. She arrived at Norfolk on 17 January 1946 and was decommissioned on 21 February 1946. Struck from the Navy list on 12 April 1946, the cargo vessel was delivered to the Maritime Commission on 29 June 1946.

•  This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

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