USS Monrovia (APA-31)
USS Monrovia (APA-31) moored alongside another ship, date and location unknown
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| Name: | USS Crescent City (APA-31) |
| Namesake: | Birthplace of President James Monroe, located in Westmoreland County, Va |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Steel |
| Laid down: | 26 March 1942 |
| Launched: | 19 September 1942 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs John M. Carmody |
| Christened: | Del Argentino |
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| Renamed: | USS Monrovia |
| Reclassified: | AP-64 to APA-31, 1 February 1943 |
| Struck: | 1 November 1968 |
| Identification: | MCV Hull Type C3-Delta, MCV Hull No. 152 |
| Honours and awards: |
Seven battle stars for World War II service |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 1968 |
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| Class and type: | Crescent City class attack transport |
| Displacement: | 8,889 tons (lt), 14,247 t.(fl) |
| Length: | 491 ft (150 m) |
| Beam: | 65 ft 9 in (20.04 m) |
| Draft: | 25 ft 8 in (7.82 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1 x General Electric geared drive turbine, 2 x boilers, designed shaft horsepower 7,800 |
| Speed: | 16 knots |
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| Complement: | Officers 55, Enlisted 500 |
| Armament: | 1 x 5"/38 cal dual purpose gun mount; 4 x 3"/50 caliber DP gun mounts, 1 x twin Bofors 40mm gun mounts, 11 x twin 20mm gun mounts. |
USS Monrovia (AP-64) was a Crescent City class attack transport of the United States Navy, built from a C-3 Delta commercial freighter design, and was named for the Birthplace of President James Monroe, located in Westmoreland County, Va.
Monrovia (AP 64) was laid down as MC hull 152 by Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, Sparrows Point, Maryland, 1942-03-26; launched 1942-09-19; sponsored by Mrs. John M. Carmody; and commissioned 1 December 1942-12-01, Capt. C. D. Leffler in command.
Reclassified APA 31 (Attack Transport) on 1943-02-01, Monrovia conducted shakedown and amphibious training exercises in Chesapeake Bay through the winter months of 1943.
On 10 May, she departed Norfolk, with Army passengers, for the Mediterranean and her first assault assignment. After hurried conversion to accommodate equipment needed by a flagship, accomplished in 2 weeks by USS Delta (AR-9) at Mers el Kebir, she took on Army nurses as passengers for transport to Algiers. There, on 1943-06-20, Vice Admiral Hewitt and his staff came on board, and were joined 10 days later by Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. On 6 July, she departed for Sicily where she served as the command ship of the Western Task Force for Operation Husky. Arriving off the assault area on the 10th, she suffered slight damage to her engine room on the 11th when a Stuka loosed bombs which straddled the vessel with two near misses. After repairs at Algiers, she returned to the United States with Italian POWs, mooring at Portsmouth, Virginia, 4 August.
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