USS General C. C. Ballou (AP-157)
| Career (U.S.) | |
|---|---|
| Namesake: | Charles Clarendon Ballou |
| Builder: | Kaiser Co., Inc. Richmond, California |
| Laid down: | date unknown |
| Launched: | 7 March 1945 |
| Acquired: | 20 May 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 30 June 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 17 May 1946 |
| In service: | after May 1946 (Army) 1 March 1950 (MSTS) |
| Out of service: | 1 March 1950 (Army) September 1954 (MSTS) |
| Renamed: | Brooklyn, 1969 Humacao, 1975 Eastern Light, 1981 |
| Reclassified: | T-AP-157, 1 March 1950 |
| Struck: | 1 July 1960 |
| Fate: | scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | General G. O. Squier-class transport ship |
| Displacement: | 9,950 tons (light), 17,250 tons (full) |
| Length: | 522 ft 10 in (159.36 m) |
| Beam: | 71 ft 6 in (21.79 m) |
| Draft: | 24 ft (7.32 m) |
| Propulsion: | single-screw steam turbine with 9,900 shp (7,400 kW) |
| Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 3,823 troops |
| Complement: | 356 (officers and enlisted) |
| Armament: | 4 × 5"/38 caliber gun mounts 4 × 40 mm AA gun mounts 16 × 20 mm AA gun mounts |
USS General C. C. Ballou (AP-157) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. She was named in honor of U.S. Army general Charles Clarendon Ballou. She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General C. C. Ballou in 1946. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS General C. C. Ballou (T-AP-157). She was later sold for commercial operation under several names before being scrapped some time after 1981.
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