USS General George M. Randall (AP-115)

USS General George M. Randall (AP-115)

USS General George M. Randall (AP-115) was a General John Pope class troop transport which served with the United States Navy in World War II and the postwar era. She was named after Major General George Morton Randall, an American Civil War hero, and veteran of the Indian wars of the 1880s and the Philippines in the early 1900s.

General George M. Randall was launched at the Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Company, in Kearny, New Jersey, as Maritime Commission hull 673 on 30 January 1944 under a Maritime Commission contract; sponsored by Mrs. Adele Lovett, wife of the Assistant Secretary of War for Air Robert A. Lovett; acquired and simultaneously commissioned on 15 April 1944, with Captain Carl C. von Paulsen, USCG, in command. She left the yard on 25 April 1944, for shakedown in Chesapeake Bay. The ship was manned by a Coast Guard crew during the war.