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USS Neville
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USS Neville (AP-16/APA-9) was a Heywood-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919 and from 1940 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1957.
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Name | Neville |
Namesake | Wendell Cushing Neville |
Ordered | as War Harbour |
Builder | Bethlehem Alameda Works Shipyard, Alameda, California |
Launched | 4 July 1918, as USS Independence (SP-3676) |
Commissioned | 18 November 1918 |
Decommissioned | 20 March 1919 |
Fate | Returned to the United States Shipping Board for Merchant Marine service |
Acquired | 14 December 1940 |
Recommissioned | 14 May 1941, as Neville (AP-16) |
Reclassified | APA-9, 1 February 1943 |
Stricken | 15 August 1946 |
Honors and awards | 5 battle stars (World War II) |
Fate | Scrapped, 1957 |
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Class and type | Heywood-class attack transport |
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Length | 507 ft (155 m) |
Beam | 56 ft (17 m) |
Draft | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) |
Propulsion | 4 × Babcock & Wilcox header-type boilers, De Laval steam turbine, single screw, 9,500 hp (7,084 kW) |
Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Capacity | 145,000 cubic feet, 1,800 tons cargo |
Troops | 1150 men |
Complement | 50 officers, 524 enlisted |
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