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USS Crescent City (APA-21)
Crescent City Class Attack Transport, Attack Transport, United States Navy, World War II, Lead ship, New Orleans, Louisiana
ISBN/EAN: 9786130375454
Umbreit-Nr.: 1669944
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 180 S.
Format in cm: 1 x 22 x 15
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 18.02.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
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- High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Crescent City (AP-40/APA-21) was a Crescent City-class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II. She was the lead ship in her class. Crescent City was named after a popular nickname for New Orleans, Louisiana. Originally named the SS Delorleans, the ship was contracted on 16 December 1938 by Maritime Commission as a Type C3 ship hull #49. The keel was laid 8 May 1939, by the Bethlehem Steel Company, Sparrows Point Maryland, where she was launched on 17 February 1940, and delivered to Delta Lines on 23 August 1940. This was the third of a series of six ships designed by the Mississippi Shipping Company, as a modification of the standard C3 design, to carry both passengers and cargo between New Orleans and Buenos Aires on the so-called "Coffee Run". Twenty six staterooms accommodated 67 passengers on the shelter deck.