USS Crescent City (APA-21)
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| Namesake: | A popular nickname for New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Steel |
| Launched: | 17 February 1940 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs M. L. Pedrick |
| Christened: | Delorleans |
| Acquired: | 9 June 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 10 October 1941 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 April 1948 |
| Renamed: | TS Golden Bear II, Artship |
| Reclassified: | AP-40 to APA-21, 1 February 1943 |
| Struck: | 12 April 1946 |
| Identification: | MCV Hull Type C3-P, MCV Hull No. 49 |
| Honours and awards: |
Ten battle stars for World War II service |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, January 2012 |
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| Class and type: | Crescent City class attack transport |
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| Length: | 491 ft (150 m) |
| Beam: | 65 ft 6 in (19.96 m) |
| Draft: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
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| Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
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| Complement: | Officers 36, Enlisted 498 |
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USS Crescent City (AP-40/APA-21) was the lead ship of the Crescent City-class attack transports that served with the US Navy during World War II. The ship was built as the cargo and passenger liner Delorleans for the Mississippi Shipping Company's Delta Line. After brief commercial operation the ship was among 28 vessels requisitioned in June 1941 for the Navy and the Army. The Navy renamed the ship Crescent City, a popular nickname for New Orleans, Louisiana, upon commissioning 10 October 1941. The ship was decommissioned and laid up in 1948 before being loaned to the California Maritime Academy to serve as a training ship 1971—1995 and then transferred to a foundation in a failed art colony project. The ship left California for Texas scrapping in 2012.
Originally named the SS Delorleans, the ship was contracted on 16 December 1938 by Maritime Commission as a Type C3 ship hull No. 49. The keel was laid 8 May 1939, by the Bethlehem Steel Company, Sparrows Point Maryland where she was launched on 17 February 1940, and delivered to Delta Lines on 23 August 1940.
Delorleans was the second of a series of six ships, the previous ship being Delbrasil and next the Deltargentino, designed by the Mississippi Shipping Company, as a modification of the standard C3 design, to carry both passengers and cargo between New Orleans and Buenos Aires on the so-called "Coffee Run". Twenty six staterooms accommodated 67 passengers on the shelter deck. The names Deltargentino (1942) and Delorleans (1942) were later reused during construction for ships of the same basic design that were also put into service as commissioned Navy ships.
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