USS Cecil
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United States | |
Name | USS Cecil |
Namesake | Cecil County, Maryland |
Builder | Western Pipe & Steel |
Laid down | 24 June 1943 |
Launched | 27 September 1943 |
Christened | Sea Angler |
Commissioned | 15 September 1944 |
Decommissioned | 24 May 1946 |
Renamed | USS Cecil, Steel Admiral. |
Honours and awards | Two battle stars for service in World War II. |
Fate | Scrapped October 1973 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Bayfield-class attack transport |
Displacement | 8,100 tons, 16,100 tons fully loaded |
Length | 492 ft (150 m) |
Beam | 69 ft 6 in (21.18 m) |
Draught | 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m) |
Propulsion | General Electric geared turbine, 2 x Babcock & Wilcox D-type boilers, single propeller, designed shaft horsepower 8,500 |
Speed | 18 knots |
Boats & landing craft carried | 12 x LCM (Mk-6), 3 x LCP(L) (MK-IV) |
Capacity | 4,800 tons (180,500 cu. ft). |
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Armament |
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USS Cecil (APA-96) was a
History
Launched as Sea Angler by Western Pipe & Steel, San Francisco, California, under a
Iwo Jima
Cecil cleared San Francisco 26 November 1944 for amphibious training in the
Okinawa
Cecil continued on to
After hostilities
On 21 May, Cecil arrived in Subic Bay, P.I., for transport and training duty until 27 August, when she departed Luzon with troops and cargo of the 1st Cavalry Division, bound for occupation duty in Japan.
Cecil called at Yokohama from 2 to 4 September 1945, then returned to the Philippines to load more occupation troops. On the return passage to Japan, she was ordered into Okinawa from 25 September to 3 October to avoid a threatening typhoon, then proceeded on to disembark her troops at Aki Nada.
Operation Magic Carpet
She sailed to
Decommissioning and fate
In March, she sailed to Norfolk, Virginia, where she was decommissioned on 24 May 1946, and returned to the Maritime Commission the next day. In 1947 Cecil was purchased by the Isthmian Steamship Company which registered her in New York as Steel Admiral. Steel Admiral remained in service with Isthmian Steamship until 1973, when she was taken to Kaohsiung, Taiwan and scrapped in October of the same year.
Awards
Cecil received two
References
- ^ The Dictionary of American Fighting Ships says "Continental Iron Works" but this is almost certainly a transcription error.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- USS Cecil (APA-96), Navsource Online
- Mawdsley, Dean L. (2002). Steel Ships and Iron Pipe: Western Pipe and Steel Company of California: The Company, The Yard, The Ships. San Francisco: Associates of the National Maritime Museum Library. p. 153. OCLC 50164828.