USS General W. C. Langfitt
USS General W. C. Langfitt (AP-151)
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United States | |
Name | General W. C. Langfitt |
Namesake | William Campbell Langfitt |
Builder | |
Laid down | date unknown |
Launched | 17 July 1944 |
Acquired | 30 September 1944 |
Commissioned | 30 September 1944 |
Decommissioned | 6 June 1946 |
In service |
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Out of service |
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Renamed | SS Transindiana, December 1969[1] |
Reclassified | T-AP-151, 1 March 1950 |
Identification | IMO number: 6904844 |
Fate | Scrapped 1983, Brownsville, Texas[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | transport ship |
Displacement | 9,950 tons (light), 17,250 tons (full) |
Length | 522 ft 10 in (159.36 m) |
Beam | 71 ft 6 in (21.79 m) |
Draft | 24 ft (7.32 m) |
Propulsion | single- screw steam turbine with 9,900 shp (7,400 kW) |
Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
Capacity | 3,343 troops |
Complement | 356 (officers and enlisted) |
Armament |
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USS General W. C. Langfitt (AP-151) was a
Operational history
General W. C. Langfitt (AP-151) was launched under Maritime Commission contract (MC #703) 17 July 1944 by the Kaiser Co., Inc., Yard 3, Richmond, California; sponsored by Mrs. William E. Lynd; acquired by the Navy and simultaneously commissioned 30 September 1944.
After
General W. C. Langfitt departed 16 July for France, where on the 26th she embarked troops at Marseilles for redeployment to the Pacific. She departed 28 July and sailed via the Panama Canal to Hollandia and points in the Philippines. As a unit of the "Magic Carpet" fleet, she departed Leyte 18 September, arriving Seattle 3 October. The transport departed again for the Western Pacific 25 October; carried occupation troops to Nagoya, Japan; and steamed to the Philippines before returning to San Francisco 10 December. Between 22 December and 16 April 1946 General W. C. Langfitt made two more "Magic Carpet" voyages to the Philippines and back bringing home thousands of veterans. After returning to San Francisco 16 April, she steamed to New York where she arrived 20 May. She decommissioned there 6 June 1946 and was returned to WSA for use by the Army Transport Service.
In February 1949 the General W. C. Langfitt left Bremerhaven with European immigrants and arrived in Buenos Aires on 25 March 1949. On 22 May 1949 USAT General W. C. Langfitt left
The fourth and final group taken to Australia by General W. C. Langfitt arrived in
General W. C. Langfitt was reacquired by the Navy 1 March 1950 for assignment as an overseas transport under
After carrying additional refugees from Europe to
In 1968 the ship was sold to
References
- ^ a b c d e "Ship Descriptions – G". The Ships List. Archived from the original on 11 November 2007. Retrieved 20 November 2007.
- ^ "Immigrant Ships, Transcribers Guild, General Langfitt". ImmigrantShips.net. 28 October 2002. Retrieved 21 November 2007.
- ^ a b Tündern-Smith, Ann (31 December 2006). "Ships of the Fifth Fleet". FifthFleet.net. Retrieved 21 November 2007.
- OCLC 36311780. Retrieved 21 November 2007.
- ^ Williams, 2013, p. 137
Further reading
- Allbrook, Maryon; Helen Cattalini (1995). The General Langfitt story : Polish refugees recount their experiences of exile, dispersal, and resettlement. Canberra: Australian Govt. Pub. Service. OCLC 36311780. Retrieved 21 November 2007.
- Williams, Greg H. (2013). World War II U.S. Navy Vessels in Private Hands. McFarland Books. ISBN 978-0-7864-6645-0.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- Photo gallery of General W. C. Langfitt at NavSource Naval History
- The General Langfitt Story: Polish Refugees Recount Their Experiences of Exile, Dispersal and Resettlement