 Near the Norfolk Navy Yard on 6 October 1943, just after her Welin boat davits had been mistakenly removed and replaced with life rafts. This arrangement had been authorized for the Admiral W. S. Benson (AP-120) class but not for the AP-110 class. General John Pope recovered her boats and davits in March 1945 at San Francisco. Photo No. 80-G-83414 (probable) Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM FROM: http://www.shipscribe.com/usnaux/AP/AP110-p.html |
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General
John Pope was
launched under a Maritime Commission contract 21 March 1943 by the
Federal
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Kearny, New Jersey; acquired by
the Navy 2
July 1943; placed in ferry commission the same day for transfer to
Baltimore
for conversion to a transport by Maryland Drydock
Company, and commissioned in full 5 August 1943, Captain George D. Lyon
in
command. USS General John Pope
(AP-110) was a troop
transport that served with the United States Navy in World War II.
After the
war she was transferred to the Army and redesignated USAT General John
Pope.
She later served in the Korean and Vietnam Wars as a civilian-manned
Military
Sea Transportation Service vessel, as USNS General John Pope
(T-AP-110).
from: WIKIPEDIA
The U.S.
Maritime Administration (Marad) has awarded a contract to
scrap the General John Pope; the
second vessel slated to leave Suisun Bay since Marad settled a federal
court battle with several
environmental groups and the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality
Control Board late last month (AMM, April 2).
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