USS Henry T Allen (APA 15)
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 USS Henry T. Allen leaving Norfolk, Virginia for Operation Torch, 1942 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | USS Henry T Allen (APA 15) |
| Builder | New York Shipbuilding |
| Launched | 2 May 1919 as SS Wenatchee |
| Completed | February 1921 |
| In service | Navy from 6 Dec 1941 |
| Out of service | 5 Feb 1946 |
| Reclassified | Harris-class attack transport |
| Fate | sold for scrap March 1948 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | passenger/cargo |
| Tonnage | 21,900 tons |
| Length | 535' 2" (162.18m) |
| Beam | 72' 4" (22.05m) |
| Depth | 31' 3" draft (9.53m) |
| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Capacity | crew of 725 and 1,524 troops |
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Remarks
USS Henry T. Allen was built as SS Wenatchee for the United States Shipping Board, one of the planned World War I troop transports converted during construction into passenger and cargo vessels. Operated by the Pacific Steamship Company on the Yokohama, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila route, she was renamed President Jefferson and operated until 1938 when she was laid up.
Acquired in 1940 by the Army Transport Service, she was transferred in December 1941 to the Navy. Used in the US landings in Northern Africa, she moved to the Pacific theatre in early 1943 where she operated primarily between Australian and New Guinea ports until March 1944, after which she operated primarily as a Command Ship for sea borne landings. Following the end of the war she returned to the US and in March 1948 was sold to Boston Metals and scrapped.
Soldiers carried
Cairns to Milne Bay 5 - 6 August 1943
Embarked 3rd, sailed 5th of August