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AP-22 Mount Vernon

Laid down as SS Washington at New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, NJ; Launched, May 1933; Renamed Mount Vernon, 6 June 1941; Acquired by the Navy, 16 June 1941; Commissioned USS Mount Vernon (AP-22), 16 June 1941, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Philadelphia, PA.; Decommissioned, 18 January 1946; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Returned to the Maritime Commission, renamed Washington; Final Disposition, fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 34,600 t.; Length 706'; Beam 86'; Draft 31' 6"; Speed 20kts; Complement 766; Troop Capacity, 6,031; Armament four single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, four 3"/50 guns, eight .50 cal machine guns; Propulsion, steam turbine, twin propellers.
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Mount Vernon 62k United States Lines' SS Washington in the final stages of construction in a fitting out berth at the New York Shipbuilding Company's shipyard in Camden, NJ, February 1933. Scott at LBS Products
Mount Vernon 21k SS Washington , postcard image. Scott at LBS Products
Mount Vernon 75k Line drawing in color of the United States Lines' SS Washington. Scott at LBS Products
Mount Vernon 53k Mount Vernon (AP-22), date and place unknown. Robert E. Houle, CM2c, SSMT1c and Joseph R. Houle CCM former crewmembers
Mount Vernon 65k Mount Vernon (AP-22) at speed. date and place unknown. Robert E. Houle, CM2c, SSMT1c and Joseph R. Houle CCM former crewmembers
Mount Vernon . Click on the Mount Vernon Cruise Book to see the story of this World War II transport Robert E. Houle, CM2c, SSMT1c and Joseph R. Houle CCM former crewmembers
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DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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