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USS Zenobia – a typicalArtemis-class AKA
Class overview
Builders	Walsh-Kaiser Co., Inc.
Operators	United States Navy
Built	1944–1945
Completed	32
General characteristics
Type	S4-SE2-BE1
Displacement	4,087 tons
Length	426 ft (130 m)
Beam	58 ft (18 m)
Draft	16 ft (5 m)
Speed	16.9 kn (31 km/h)
Complement	303 (varies)
Armament	1 ×5-inch 38 caliber dual-purpose gun mount 4 × twin40 mm gun mounts 10 ×20 mm guns gun mounts

TheArtemis-class attack cargo ships were a series ofattack cargo ships (AKAs) built byWalsh-Kaiser Company ofCranston andProvidence, Rhode Island, duringWorld War II.

Like all AKAs, they were designed to carrycombat loaded military cargo andlanding craft, and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and troops on enemy shores duringamphibious operations. Compared to other classes of AKAs, theArtemis class had a much shallowerdraft, and a lowermain deck aft. All these ships were built on the same standard hull design, but there were some differences from ship to ship: The hull was a S-Type Special-Purpose Ships, same as S3-M2-K2Landing Ship, Tank.^[1]

The armament varied, as did that of the other ships of the day. During 1944–1945, the5"/38-caliber gun was recognized as the best gun for the dual role ofantiaircraft andnaval gunfire support, and the40 mm gun was seen as the best antiaircraft gun. The older20 mm and .50 caliber guns had been recognized to be of limited value, and were being phased out, though they appeared on some of these ships. The 20 mm guns were later removed from all of them, but it is not clear just when this happened.

The complement varied as well, but theDANFS figures sometimes seem to confuse ship's company with embarked troops in determining a ship's complement.

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