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APL-38 / APB-38 Marlboro

Benawah Class Self-propelled Barracks Ship: Authorized, 17 December 1943, as Barracks Ship (non-self propeller) APL-38; Reclassified Barracks Ship (self-propelled) APB-38, 8 August 1944; Laid down, 25 August 1944 at Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston MA.; Launched, 17 November 1944; Commissioned USS Marlboro (APB-38), 18 August 1945; Decommissioned, January 1947, at Green Cove Springs FL.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, St John's River FL.; Struck from the Naval Register 1 December 1963; Final Disposition, scrapped.

Specifications: Displacement; 2,189 t.; Length 328'; Beam 50'; Draft 11' 2"; Speed 12kts; Complement 160; Troops 990; Armament 2 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts, 2 quad 40mm gun mounts, 20 .50 and .30 cal machine guns; Propulsion, 2 General Motors 12-567 Diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders.

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