USS Windsor (APA-55)
USS Windsor underway in harbor, c. 1943
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| Name: | USS Windsor (APA-55) |
| Namesake: | Windsor County, Vermont |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Sparrow's Point Shipyard |
| Laid down: | 23 July 1942 |
| Launched: | 28 December 1942 |
| Sponsored by: | Miss Patricia Moreell |
| Commissioned: | 17 June 1943 as APA-55 |
| Decommissioned: | 4 March 1946 |
| Reclassified: | APA-55 on 16 June 1943 |
| Struck: | 12 April 1946 |
| Honors and awards: |
5 battle stars |
| Fate: | Scrapped in Taiwan in 1972 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Windsor class attack transport |
| Displacement: | 13,143 tons |
| Length: | 473 ft 1 in (144.20 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20 m) |
| Draft: | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | two boilers, one geared turbine drive, single shaft, 8,000 hp (6,000 kW) |
| Speed: | 18.6 knots (21.4 mph; 34.4 km/h) |
| Troops: | 1,511 |
| Complement: | 552 |
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USS Windsor (APA-55) was an attack transport built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Pacific Ocean and provided troop transport service. She returned home at war’s end with five battle stars to her credit.
The steel-hulled, single-screw cargo vessel was laid down as SS Excelsior under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 589) on 23 July 1942 at Sparrow's Point, Maryland, by the Bethlehem Sparrow's Point Shipyard; renamed Windsor and classified a transport, AP-100, on 5 October 1942; launched on 28 December 1942; sponsored by Miss Patricia Moreell, the daughter of Rear Admiral Ben Moreell, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks; reclassified an attack transport, APA-55, on 16 June 1943; and commissioned at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, on 17 June 1943, Commander D. C. Woodward in command.
Windsor began her shakedown on 20 June and conducted eight training cruises in Chesapeake Bay. After post-shakedown availability, the ship departed the east coast of the United States on 9 December, bound for the Pacific. Upon reaching Pearl Harbor, Windsor became a unit of Transport Division (TransDiv) 4, 5th Fleet Amphibious Force.
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