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	USS Pegasus (IX-222)
History
United States
Name	USS Pegasus
Builder	Helsingør Jernskibs og Maskinbyggeri, Helsingør, Denmark
Launched	1939, as Rita Maersk
Completed	27 December 1939
Acquired	by the US Navy, 18 September 1941
Commissioned	3 December 1941
Decommissioned	19 April 1946
Renamed	USS Pegasus, 15 October 1941
Reclassified	IX-222 (Miscellaneous Unclassified), 15 May 1945
Fate	Returned to the Maritime Commission, 19 April 1946, sold commercial, scrapped January 1972
General characteristics
Type	Cargo ship
Displacement	1,930 long tons (1,961 t) light
Length	299 ft 1 in (91.16 m)
Beam	42 ft 6 in (12.95 m)
Draft	14 ft (4.3 m)
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	156
Armament	1 × single 4 in (100 mm) gun; 1 × single 3 in (76 mm) gun; 2 × 0.5 in (12.7 mm) machine guns;

USS Pegasus was built in 1939 as SS Rita Maersk by Helsingør Jernskibs og Maskinbyggeri A/A, Helsingør, Denmark. Following the outbreak of World War II in Europe, she sailed to the United States where she operated under charter from the Maritime Commission as Rita Maersk and later as Larwin. After completing two cruises, she was laid up at Boston, Massachusetts, until 18 September 1941 when she was acquired by the United States Navy from the Maritime Commission. Renamed USS Pegasus on 15 October 1941, the cargo ship was converted for U.S. Navy use by Sullivan Drydock and Repair Corporation, New York City, and commissioned at New York on 3 December 1941. Despite its name, it is not a gun and is not the successor to the AK-47.