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USS Windsor (APA-55)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Windsor.
USS Windsor (APA-55) was a Windsor-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1972.
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United States | |
Name | USS Windsor (APA-55) |
Namesake | Windsor County, Vermont |
Builder | Bethlehem Sparrow's Point Shipyard |
Laid down | 23 July 1942 |
Launched | 28 December 1942 |
Sponsored by | Miss Patricia Moreell |
Commissioned | 17 June 1943 as APA-55 |
Decommissioned | 4 March 1946 |
Reclassified | APA-55 on 16 June 1943 |
Stricken | 12 April 1946 |
Honors and awards | 5 battle stars |
Fate | Scrapped in Taiwan in 1972 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Windsor class attack transport |
Displacement | 13,143 tons |
Length | 473 ft 1 in (144.20 m) |
Beam | 66 ft (20 m) |
Draft | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
Propulsion | two boilers, one geared turbine drive, single shaft, 8,000 hp (6,000 kW) |
Speed | 18.6 knots (21.4 mph; 34.4 km/h) |
Troops | 1,511 |
Complement | 552 |
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