USS Arrowhead (AD-35)

Arrowhead's sister ship, USS Tidewater seen in 1965.
History
United States
Name	Arrowhead
Namesake	arrowhead
Builder	Puget Sound Navy Yard
Laid down	1 December 1944
Identification	Hull number: AD-35
Fate	Cancelled, 11 August 1945
General characteristics
Class and type	Shenandoah-class destroyer tender
Displacement	11,755 tons (Light) 16,900 tons (Full)
Length	492 ft (150 m)
Beam	69 ft 6 in (21.18 m)
Draft	28 ft (8.5 m)
Installed power	four turbo-drive 750 kW 450 V AC two diesel-drive 300 kW 120 V/240 V DC single propeller, 8,500  shp (6,300  kW)
Propulsion	one Westinghouse geared turbine engines two Foster and Wheeler D-type boilers 435 psi (3,000 kPa) at 740 °F (393 °C) double Westinghouse main reduction gear
Speed	18.4 knots (34.1 km/h; 21.2 mph)
Complement	63 officers, 986 enlisted
Armament	2 × single 5-inch/38 cal. dual purpose gun mounts 4 × twin 40 mm AA gun mounts 22 × single 20 mm AA gun mounts

USS Arrowhead (AD-35) was a planned Shenandoah-class destroyer tender of the United States Navy during World War II. ^[1] She was laid down at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 1 December 1944. Due to the defeat of Germany, and atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, her construction was cancelled on 11 August 1945, shortly before the war's end. ^[2]

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