USS General A. E. Anderson (AP-111)
USS General A. E. Anderson (AP-111) in 1944
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| Name: | USS General A. E. Anderson |
| Namesake: | General Alexander E. Anderson, US Army |
| Builder: | Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock |
| Launched: | 2 May 1943 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs George C. Marshall |
| Acquired: | 25 August 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 5 October 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 November 1958 |
| Struck: | 26 October 1990 |
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| Honors and awards: |
One service star for Korean War service |
| Fate: | Scrapped in Taiwan, July 1987 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | General John Pope-class transport |
| Displacement: | 11,450 tons (lt) |
| Tons burthen: | 20,175 tons fully laden |
| Length: | 622 feet 7 inches (189.76 m) |
| Beam: | 75 feet 6 inches (23.01 m) |
| Draft: | 25 feet 6 inches (7.77 m) |
| Installed power: | 17,000 shp |
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| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 5,142 |
| Complement: | 465 |
| Armament: | 4 x single 5"/38 caliber dual purpose guns, 4 x quad 1.1" guns, 20 x single 20mm guns |
USS General A. E. Anderson (AP-111) was a troop transport that served with the United States Navy in World War II and the Korean War.
General A. E. Anderson was launched 2 May 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Kearny, New Jersey; acquired by the Navy 25 August 1943; placed in partial commission the same day for transfer to Baltimore for conversion to a transport by the Maryland Drydock Company; and placed in full commission at Baltimore 5 October 1943, Cap. W. E. Miller in command.
From 25 October 1943 to 21 March 1944 General A. E. Anderson made four round-trip transport voyages out of Norfolk, Virginia to Casablanca, French Morocco. Underway again 26 March 1944, she returned to North Africa and touched at Gourock, Scotland, before steaming to Bermuda, where British censors and their families embarked for passage to New York. The ship reached New York 7 May, and following a round-trip voyage to Belfast, Northern Ireland (carrying the Nebraska "All Hell Can't Stop Us" 134th Infantry Regiment along with other elements of the 35th Division, including the Band, and accompanied by the cruiser USS Marblehead. Troops were disembarked at Avonmouth, Port of Bristol") she stood out of Norfolk 29 June for Bombay, where her troops debarked 7 August. General A. E. Anderson returned to San Pedro, California, 11 September 1944 and subsequently made another long round-trip voyage thence to Bombay via Australia, returning 9 December.
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