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Adair 1944

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate	Modification
APA55	Windsor (ex-Excelsior)	4391	Bethlehem, Sparrows Point	7.1942	28.12.1942	6.1943	stricken 4.1946	Windsor
APA56	Leedstown (ex-Wood, ex-Exchequer)	4392	Bethlehem, Sparrows Point	8.1942	13.2.1943	7.1943	stricken 7.1946	Windsor
APA91	Adair (ex-Exchester)	4396	Bethlehem, Sparrows Point	1943	29.2.1944	7.1944	stricken 5.1946	Windsor
APA97	Dauphin	4419	Bethlehem, Sparrows Point	1944	10.6.1944	9.1944	to Maritime Comm. 4.1946	Windsor
APA98	Dutchess	4420	Bethlehem, Sparrows Point	1944	26.8.1944	11.1944	for disposal 4.1946	Windsor
APA103	Queens	4421	Bethlehem, Sparrows Point	3.1944	12.9.1944	12.1944	stricken 6.1946	Windsor
APA105	Shelby	4422	Bethlehem, Sparrows Point	6.1944	25.10.1944	1.1945	stricken 6.1946	Windsor
APA89	Frederick Funston	6	Seattle-Tacoma, Tacoma	1941	27.9.1941	11.1942 // 4.1943	to US Army 4.1946	Frederick Funston
APA90	James O`Hara	7	Seattle-Tacoma, Tacoma	6/1941	30.12.1941	12.1942 // 4.1943	to US Army 4.1946	Frederick Funston
APA110	Griggs	415	Ingalls, Pascagoula	1943	1944	12.1944	stricken 6.1946	Frederick Funston
APA111	Grundy	417	Ingalls, Pascagoula	1943	16.1.1944	1.1945	to War Shipping Adm. 5.1946	Frederick Funston
APA112	Guilford	418	Ingalls, Pascagoula	1944	14.7.1944	5.1945	to Maritime Comm. 5.1946	Frederick Funston
APA113	Sitka	419	Ingalls, Pascagoula	2.1944	23.6.1944	3.1945	stricken 6.1946	Frederick Funston
APA114	Hamblen	420	Ingalls, Pascagoula	1944	30.6.1944	6.1945	to Maritime Comm. 5.1946	Frederick Funston
APA115	Hampton	421	Ingalls, Pascagoula	1944	25.8.1944	2.1945	to Maritime Comm. 5.1946	Frederick Funston
APA116	Hanover	422	Ingalls, Pascagoula	1944	18.8.1944	3.1945	to Maritime Comm. 5.1946	Frederick Funston

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	APA55, 56, 91, 97, 98, 103, 105: 8276 APA89, 90, 110-116: 10967
Displacement full, t	APA55, 56, 91, 97, 98, 103, 105: 13500 APA89, 90, 110-116: 14700
Length, m	APA55, 56, 91, 97, 98, 103, 105: 137.2 wl 144.3 oa APA89, 90, 110-116: 141.8 wl 150.1 oa
Breadth, m	APA55, 56, 91, 97, 98, 103, 105: 20.3 APA89, 90, 110-116: 21.2
Draught, m	7.62 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	APA55, 56, 91, 97, 98, 103, 105: 1 set Bethlehem geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers APA89, 90, 110-116: 1 set Bethlehem geared steam turbines, 2 Foster Wheeler boilers
Power, h. p.	APA55, 56, 91, 97, 98, 103, 105: 8000 APA89, 90, 110-116: 8500
Max speed, kts	APA55, 56, 91, 97, 98, 103, 105: 18.5 APA89, 90, 110-116: 16.5
Fuel, t	APA55, 56, 91, 97, 98, 103, 105: oil 1627 APA89, 90, 110-116: oil 1649
Endurance, nm(kts)	APA55, 56, 91, 97, 98, 103, 105: 16000(15) APA89, 90, 110-116: 13000(15)
Armament	APA55, 56, 91, 97, 98, 103, 105: 2 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 12, 2 x 2 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 18 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4 APA89, 90, 110-116: 1 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 12, 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 20, 2 x 2 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 16 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4
Military load	24 LCVP, 2 LCM, 1 LCP(L), 1 LCP(R), 3895 t of cargo, 1468 troops by 1945 APA55, 56, 91, 97, 98, 103, 105: 4 LCM(6), 16 LCVP, 1 LCPL, 1 LCPR, 1600 t of cargo, 1514 marines by 1945 APA89, 90, 110-116: 4 LCM(6), 16 LCVP, 1 LCPL, 1 LCPR, 1500 t of cargo, 1593 marines
Electronic equipment	presumably SE or SF or SG or SH or SL or SO or SU radar
Complement	466 - 555

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Project history

USN military transport vessels were sectioned into two groups: АР for transportation of troops and АК for carriage of goods and technics. The majority of them were built on the basis of standard types С2, С3 and С4 and differed from usual cargo ships a little.

For delivery of troops and cargoes directly to a beaching place assault landing transport ships (АРА and АКА) served, which main difference from АК and АР consisted that they were extra equipped with disembarkation craft of LCVP, LCM and LCP (L) types; with their help delivery of people and cargoes to beach also was effected.

Originally similar ships were not outlined in own subclass and were registered as АР and АК. In February, 1943 reorganisation was done and assault transports have received indexation АРА and АКА.

Two ships of Doyen class, projected even on the eve of war for landing operations in Caribbean basin, became the first American assault military transports. The overwhelming majority of remaining АРА and АКА has been converted from merchant cargo and cargo-passenger vessels or constructed in hulls of standard cargo vessels built by the big series in days of war. An exception were specially projected as assault transports Gilliam (АРА) and Artemis (АКА) classes.

Besides the large landing transport ships of АРА and АКА classes, small landing parties and subversive groups were landed by fast landing transports (APD) converted from become outdated Wickes and Clemson classes destroyers and destroyer escorts of Buckley and Rudderow classes.

These ships belonged to standard types C3-S-A3 (Windsor) and C3-S1-A3 (Frederick Funston).

Modernizations

None.

1/1946, APA55, 56, 91, 97, 98, 103, 105: 2 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 18 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10SE or SF or SG or SH or SL or SO or SU radar

1/1946, APA89, 90, 110-116: 1 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 20/21, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 16 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10SE or SF or SG or SH or SL or SO or SU radar

Naval service

No significant events.





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