USS Horace A. Bass (APD-124)

USS Horace A. Bass (APD-124)
History
United States
Name:	USS Horace A. Bass
Namesake:	Ensign Horace A. Bass Jr. (1915-1942), United States Navy aviator and recipient of the Navy Cross for his actions in the Battle of Midway in June 1942
Builder:	Bethlehem Steel Company, Fore River, Quincy, Massachusetts
Laid down:	3 August 1944
Launched:	12 September 1944
Sponsored by:	Mrs. Horace A. Bass, Jr.
Commissioned:	21 December 1944
Decommissioned:	9 February 1959
Recommissioned:	Unrecorded date
Decommissioned:	30 July 1969
Reclassified:	From destroyer escort DE-691 to high-speed transport APD-124 prior to construction From APD-124 to amphibious transport, small, LPR-124 1 January 1969
Struck:	15 September 1974
Honors and awards:	Two battle stars for World War II service A Navy Unit Commendation and five battle stars for Korean War service
Fate:	Sold for scrapping 11 August 1975
General characteristics
Class and type:	Crosley-class high-speed transport
Displacement:	1,650 tons
Length:	306 ft 0 in (93.27 m)
Beam:	37 ft (11 m)
Draft:	12 ft 7 in (3.84 m)
Installed power:	12,000 shaft horsepower (8.96 MW)
Propulsion:	2 Combustion Engineering DR boilers, 2 General Electric turbines, turbo-electric drive, 2 shafts
Speed:	23.6 knots maximum 12 knots economical cruising
Range:	6,000 nautical miles (11,112 kilometers) at 12 knots
Boats & landing craft carried:	4 x landing craft vehicle and personnel (LCVP)s
Capacity:	6 × quarter-ton trucks 2 × 1-ton trucks 4 × ammunition carts 4 × pack howitzers<Ammunition 6,000 cubic feet General cargo 3,500 cubic feet Gasoline 1,000 cubic feet
Troops:	162
Complement:	204
Armament:	1 × 5-inch (127-millimeter) gun 3 × twin 40-millimeter antiaircraft guns 6 × single 20-millimeter antiaircraft guns 2 × depth charge racks

USS Horace A. Bass (DE-691/APD-124/LPR-124) was a United States Navy high-speed transport in commission from 1944 to 1969.

Originally projected as a Rudderow-class destroyer escort (DE-691), Horace A. Bass (APD-124) was selected for completion to a modified design as a Crosley Class High-speed Transport (APD), designed for landing and supporting raiding parties while retaining a secondary, destroyer escort-like role of convoy escort. Laid down on 3 August 1944 at Quincy, Massachusetts, by the Bethlehem Steel Company, Fore River, she was launched on 12 September 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Horace A. Bass Jr., widow of Ensign Horace A. Bass Jr., and commissioned on 21 December 1944, Lieutenant Commander F. W. Kuhn in command.

Horace A. Bass fitted out at the Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, and conducted shakedown training off Bermuda, after which she sailed to New York City, where she arrived 15 February 1945. Departing on 16 February 1945, Horace A. Bass escorted ammunition ship USS Firedrake (AE-14) to Panama, from where she proceeded to San Diego, California, arriving on 3 March 1945. After gunnery exercises in the area she sailed westward to join in the climactic phase of World War II.

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