USS General A. W. Greely (AP-141)
USNS General A.W. Greely alongside the USS LSM-397 |
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| Career (U.S.) | |
|---|---|
| Namesake: | Adolphus Washington Greely |
| Builder: | Kaiser Co., Inc. Richmond, California |
| Laid down: | 18 July 1944 |
| Launched: | 5 November 1944 |
| Acquired: | 22 March 1945 as AP-141 |
| Commissioned: | 22 March 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 March 1946 |
| Renamed: | USAT General A. W. Greely, 29 March 1946 USNS General A. W. Greely, 1 March 1950 SS Hawaii Bear, 1969 SS Austral Glade, 1975 SS Pacific Enterprise, 1979 SS Caribe Enterprise, 1982 |
| Reclassified: | T-AP-141, 29 March 1946 |
| Reinstated: | 1 March 1950 |
| Fate: | sold for commercial use, scrapped 1986 |
| 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: | 26 ft 6 in (8.10 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. Greely (AP-141) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship named for U.S. Army general Adolphus Greely. She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General A. W. Greeley in 1946. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS General A. W. Greely (T-AP-141). She was later sold and converted to a container ship and operated under several names before being scrapped in 1986.
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