USS Florence Nightingale (AP-70)

USS Florence Nightingale (AP-70)

USS Florence Nightingale (AP-70) was an Elizabeth C. Stanton-class transport ship of the United States Navy. She was named for Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), the nursing pioneer, and is one of the few United States Navy ships named after a woman.

Florence Nightingale was launched on 28 August 1940 by Moore Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Oakland, California, as Mormacsun; sponsored by Miss Carlotta S. Chapman. Delivered to Moore McCormack Lines in May 1941, she was acquired by the War Shipping Administration on 20 December 1941, and acquired by the US Navy on 13 September 1942, and commissioned on 17 September 1942, Captain E. D. Graves, Jr., in command.