USS ''Minidoka'' (AK-196) was an that was constructed for the
US Navy during the closing period of
World War II. She was declared excess-to-needs and returned to the
US Maritime Commission
The United States Maritime Commission (MARCOM) was an independent executive agency of the U.S. federal government that was created by the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, which was passed by Congress on June 29, 1936, and was abolished on May 24, 195 ...
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Construction
''Minidoka'', a
C1-M-AV1
Type C1 was a designation for small cargo ships built for the United States Maritime Commission before and during World War II. Total production was 493 ships built from 1940 to 1945. The first C1 types were the smallest of the three original M ...
type cargo ship, was laid down under Maritime Commission contract, MC hull 2127, by Walter Butler Shipbuilding Co., Inc.,
Superior, Wisconsin
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, 26 August 1944; launched 13 January 1945; sponsored by Mrs. R. N. Elder; and completed 5 May 1945. While under conversion for Navy use at the Superior yard of Walter Butler, her conversion was canceled 25 August 1945.
Merchant service
Subsequently, she was returned to the Maritime Commission, renamed ''Coastal Herald'', and operated for the Maritime Commission by
Waterman Steamship Corporation and then the
United Fruit Company until 1948. She was then sent to the reserve fleet awaiting sale.
On 13 July 1956, she was sold to
Companhia Nacional de Navegacao Costerira, Patrimonio Nacional, of
Brazil, for $693,682, under the condition that she be used for coastal shipping. She was delivered on 3 January 1957. She was scrapped in 1977.
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Alamosa-class cargo ships
Ships built in Superior, Wisconsin
1945 ships
World War II auxiliary ships of the United States
Minidoka County, Idaho