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AP-63 Rochambeau

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Rochambeau Class Transport:
  • Built in 1933 as Marechal Joffre at Societe Provencals de Constructions Navales, La Ciotat, France for the Societe des Services Contractuels des Messageries Maritimes
  • Manned by the Free French after the fall of France in 1940
  • Taken over by the Maritime Commission, 20 April 1942, at San Francisco, CA., and transferred to the US Navy
  • Commissioned, 27 April 1942
  • Renamed and designated USS Rochambeau (AP-63), 29 April 1942
  • Decommissioned and transferred to the Maritime Commission, 17 March 1945
  • Returned to French custody, renamed Marechal Joffre
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 14,242 t.
    Length 470' 10"
    Beam 63' 11"
    Draft 26'
    Speed 15 kts.
    Complement 381
    Troop Accommodations 303
    Armament one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, four single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts, eight 1.1" guns, replaced with eight single 20mm gun mounts
    Propulsion system unknown
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    Rochambeau 59k Rochambeau (AP-63) at anchor, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, August 1947    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Rochambeau 7k ex Rochambeau (AP-63) being operated for the WSA by the French Government as Marechal Joffre to transport US troops from Europe to the US after the war. Note the extra life rafts along her starboard side. Gunter Krebs
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    DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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