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AP-76 Anne Arundel

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Defense Service Medal
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (4) - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1)
Third Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippine Liberation Medal

Elizabeth C. Stanton Class Transport:

Laid down, 18 July 1940, as Mormacyork, a Maritime Commission type (C3-E) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 43), at Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Kearny, N.J.

Launched, 16 November 1940

Delivered to Moore-McCormack Lines for commercial service

Acquired by the US Navy from the War Shipping Administration in September 1942

Converted for Naval service at Robbins Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Placed in commission, 17 September 1942, CDR. Linsford Y. Mason, Jr., in command

Renamed USS Anne Arundel (AP-76), 18 September 1942

During World War II Anne Arundel (AP-76) participated in the following campaigns:

**Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaigns**
Campaigns and Dates 1950-51	Campaigns and Dates 1952-53
North African occupation Algeria-Morocco landings 8 to 11 November 1942	Invasion of Southern France 15 to 16 August 1944 30 August 1944
Invasion of Normandy 6 June 1944	.

**Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns**
Campaigns and Dates 1950-51	Campaigns and Dates 1952-53
Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto 3 to 8 May	.

Decommissioned, 21 March 1946, at Brooklyn, N.Y.

Returned to the Maritime Commission for disposal

Struck from the Naval Register, 12 April 1946

Returned to her prewar owners and refurbished for merchant service, renamed Mormacyork

Laid up around 1962

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 1 July 1970, to Lotti S. P. A., of Italy

Anne Arundel earned five battle stars for her World War II service

Specifications:
Displacement 7,954 t.(lt) 14,400t.(fl)
Length 49' 2'
Beam 69' 6"
Draft 24'
Speed 18.4 kts.
Complement 429
Armament

four 3"/50s DP gun mounts

four 40mm AA gun mounts

eighteen 20mm AA gun mounts
Propulsion steam turbine, single shaft, 8.500hp

Size	Image Description	Source
30k	Anne Arundel (AP-76), in mid-stream after sailing from Pier 8, US Army Port of Embarkation, Newport News, VA., with troops bound for service overseas. Official US Army photo produced by US Army Signal Corps, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, 5 June 1943. Photo now in the collections of the Library of Virginia. Image No. C1:2/05/102	The Library of Virginia, US Army Signal Corps Photograph Collection
49k	Anne Arundel (AP-76) leaving Pier 8 with troops on board bound for service overseas, Official US Army photo produced by US Army Signal Corps, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, 5 June 1943. Photo now in the collections of the Library of Virginia. Image No. C1:2/05/100	The Library of Virginia, US Army Signal Corps Photograph Collection
62k	Anne Arundel (AP-76) leaving Pier 8 with troops on board bound for service overseas, Official US Army photo produced by US Army Signal Corps, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, 5 June 1943. Photo now in the collections of the Library of Virginia. Image No. C1:2/05/101	The Library of Virginia, US Army Signal Corps Photograph Collection
106k	Anne Arundel (AP-76), loading for the invasion of North Africa.	Photo from the collection of Capt T.C. Edrington III, USN (dec) courtesy of T.C. Edrington IV.

View the Anne Arundel (AP-76)
DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site

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