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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-crewed Military Sea Transportation Service vessel, as USNS General John Pope (T-AP-110).
USS Pope may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Pope (DD-225) , a Clemson -class destroyer, commissioned in 1920 and sunk in battle in 1942. USS Pope (DE-134) , an Edsall -class destroyer escort, commissioned in 1943 and decommissioned in 1946.
The wreck of USS Pope was located and identified in December 2008 by the dive vessel MV Empress, approximately 60 nautical miles (110 km) from the wreck of HMS Exeter, which Empress discovered in 2007. Unfortunately commercial salvage divers had discovered Pope previously and save for a skeleton, little now remains of her wreck. [5]
USS General M. C. Meigs (AP-116) was a General John Pope class troop transport of the P2-S2-R2 type. She was a fast troop ship that transported troops for the United States in World War II and the Korean War. The ship was named after General Montgomery C. Meigs, the Quartermaster General of the United States Army during the United States Civil War.
Ship name Namesake MC hull no. Ship type Laid down Launched Fate SS Jean P. Chouteau: Jean Pierre Chouteau: 2717 standard 30 November 1943: 19 December 1943: Sold private 1947, scrapped 1971 SS Jean Ribaut: Jean Ribault: 2300 standard 23 March 1944: 5 May 1944: Scrapped 1970 SS Jedediah S. Smith: Jedediah S. Smith: 1650 standard 14 April 1943: ...
USS General George M. Randall (AP-115) was a General John Pope class troop transport which served with the United States Navy in World War II and the postwar era. She was named after Major General George Morton Randall, an American Civil War hero, and veteran of the Indian wars of the 1880s and the Philippines in the early 1900s.
Ship name Hull no. Builder Laid down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Post USN - service names Fate General John Pope: AP-110 Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey: 14 July 1942 21 March 1943 5 August 1943 12 June 1946 USAT General John Pope USNS General John Pope (T-AP-110) Scrapped General A. E. Anderson: AP-111 2 ...
USS Pope (DE-134) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys. She was named after commodore John Pope, born 17 December 1798 in Sandwich, Massachusetts.