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AP-70 Florence Nightingale

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (3)
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Elizabeth C. Stanton Class Transport
  • Laid down as SS Mormacsun, a Maritime Commission type (C3) hull under a Maritime Commission contract at Moore Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Oakland, CA.
  • Launched, 28 April 1940
  • Commissioned USS Florence Nightingale (AP-70), 17 September 1942, CAPT. E. D. Graves, Jr., in command
  • During World War II Florence Nightingale was first assigned to the European Theater and later to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater participating in the following campaigns:

    Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    North African occupation
    Algeria-Morocco landings, Port Lyautey, Morocco, 18 to 18 August 1944     		Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 3 to 8 May 1945
    Sicilian occupation
    Scoglitti, 10 to 12 July 1943     		.
    Invasion of southern France, 18 to 18 August 1944 .

  • Decommissioned and turned over the Maritime Commission, 1 May 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 7,980 t.(lt) 14,909 t.(fl)
    Length 492'
    Beam 69' 6"
    Draft 24'
    Speed 18 kts.
    Complement 396
    Armament
    one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    four single3"/50 dual purpose gun mount
    Propulsion steam turbine, single shaft, 8.500hp
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    Florence Nightingale 44k Florence Nightingale,/i> (AP-79) underway, date and location unknown.. Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
    Florence Nightingale 93k Florence Nightingale (AP-70) docked at Yokosuka, Japan, in September 1945. Note the Japanese miniature submarines on the dock in the foreground.
    Photo by Harris T. Remley.    		 Richard Remley in honor of his father Harris T. Remley S1/c USS LSM-471
    View the Florence Nightingale (AP-70)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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