USS Argonne (AP-4)
USS Argonne (AS-10), c. 1930s
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| Name: | Argonne |
| Namesake: | Meuse-Argonne campaign in World War I |
| Builder: | American International Shipbuilding |
| Yard number: | 673 |
| Laid down: | 22 November 1918 as Sinsinawa |
| Launched: | 24 February 1920 |
| Completed: | August 1920 |
| Acquired: | 5 November 1921 |
| Commissioned: | 8 November 1921 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 July 1946 |
| Reclassified: | From AP-4 to AS-10, 1 July 1924; to AG-31, 25 July 1940 |
| Struck: | 28 August 1946 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 14 August 1950 |
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| Type: | Design 1024 ship |
| Displacement: | 8,400 tons |
| Length: | 448 ft (137 m) |
| Beam: | 68 ft 6 in (20.88 m) |
| Draft: | 23 ft 9 in (7.24 m) |
| Speed: | 15.5 knots |
| Complement: | 249; AG: 398 |
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USS Argonne (AP-4/AS-10/AG-31) was originally completed in 1920 under a United States Shipping Board (USSB) contract by the International Shipbuilding Corp., Hog Island, Pa., delivered to the War Department in December 1920, named Argonne for the U.S. Army's Meuse-Argonne campaign participation in World War I, laid up in February 1921 and loaned to the Navy on 3 November 1921. Accepted preliminarily by the Navy on that date, she was commissioned as Argonne on 8 November 1921 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Lt. Comdr. Theodore H. Winters in command. The ship was permanently transferred to the Navy 6 August 1924 by Executive Order.
Argonne was delivered to the War Department assigned to the U.S. Army Transport Service in the early part of 1921 and quickly laid up at Philadelphia in February. The ship was loaned to the Navy 3 November 1921, commissioned 8 November as USS Argonne. On 16 November 1921, the ship was classified as a transport, AP-4. Departing Philadelphia on 24 November 1921 with military and civilian passengers, as well as a senatorial party, Argonne's maiden voyage and shakedown took the ship to Port-au-Prince, Haiti; St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; Ponce, Puerto Rico; and Santo Domingo City, Dominican Republic; before she put into Hampton Roads on 22 December. Subsequently returning to Philadelphia for post-shakedown availability, Argonne proceeded to the Panama Canal via Charleston, South Carolina, and after a stop at Mare Island continued across the Pacific to Cavite, in the Philippines, on her first voyage to that part of the globe.
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