USS General A. W. Brewster (AP-155)
| Career (U.S.) | |
|---|---|
| Namesake: | Andre Walker Brewster |
| Builder: | Kaiser Co., Inc. Richmond, California |
| Laid down: | 10 October 1944 |
| Launched: | 21 January 1945 |
| Acquired: | 23 April 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 23 April 1945 |
| In service: | after 10 April 1946 (Army) 1 March 1950 (MSTS) |
| Out of service: | 1 March 1950 (Army) December 1954 (MSTS) |
| Renamed: | SS Philadelphia, 1968 |
| Reclassified: | T-AP-155, 1 March 1950 |
| Fate: | sold for scrapping November 1987 |
| 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 A. W. Brewster (AP-155) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. The ship was crewed by the U.S. Coast Guard throughout the war. She was named in honor of U.S. Army general Andre Walker Brewster. She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General A. W. Brewster in 1946. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS General A. W. Brewster (T-AP-155). She was later sold for commercial operation under the name SS Philadelphia, before being scrapped some time after November 1987.
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