USS APc-15 | |||||||
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Career (United States) | |||||||
Name: | USS APc-15 | ||||||
Builder: | Camden Ship Building and Marineway, Camden, Maine | ||||||
Laid down: | 29 April 1942, as a coastal minesweeper AMc-155 | ||||||
Launched: | 9 July 1942 | ||||||
Commissioned: | 27 October 1942, as APc-15 | ||||||
Fate: | Sold, 13 January 1947 | ||||||
Career (Canada) | |||||||
Name: | Gulf Trader (1947) La Belle (1948) Black Trader (1963) | ||||||
Owner: | Vancouver Tug Boat Co (-1960) | ||||||
Identification: | 179077 | ||||||
Fate: | Sank in 1998 | ||||||
General characteristics | |||||||
Class & type: | APc-1 class small coastal transport vessel | ||||||
Displacement: |
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Length: | 103 ft (31 m) | ||||||
Beam: | 21 ft 3 in (6.48 m) | ||||||
Draft: | 9 ft 3 in (2.82 m) | ||||||
Propulsion: |
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Speed: | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) | ||||||
Complement: | 25 (3 officers, 22 enlisted) | ||||||
Armament: | 4 × single 20 mm AA gun mounts | ||||||
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USS APc-15 was a United States Navy APc-1-class small coastal transport vessel in World War II. Laid down on 29 April 1942 as Coastal Minesweeper AMc-155 at Camden Ship Building and Marineway, Camden, Maine, she was launched on 9 July 1942 and commissioned as APc-25 on 27 October 1942.[1]
She served with the Seventh Fleet Amphibious Force in the South West Pacific Area conducting operations off the coast of New Guinea.[1] She took part in the Bismarck Archipelago Operations around Arawe, New Britain between 17-18 and 25–26 December 1943.
Fate[]
She sank in 1998 at Deas Slough near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
References[]
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