| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | SS Delargentino |
| Operator: | Mississippi Shipping Company |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, Baltimore County, Maryland |
| Laid down: | 21 December 1939 |
| Launched: | 13 July 1940 |
| Acquired: | 8 November 1940 |
| Fate: | Requisitioned by the United States Army, 28 June 1941 |
| Career | |
| Name: | USAT J. W. McAndrew |
| Acquired: | 28 June 1941 |
| Fate: | Sold into commercial service, 22 December 1948 |
| Career | |
| Name: | SS African Enterprise |
| Operator: | Farrell Lines |
| In service: | 1949 |
| Out of service: | 1960 |
| Fate: | To National Defense Reserve Fleet, 19 October 1960 Sold by MARAD, 9 April 1969 Broken up, February 1972 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Displacement: | 6,590 long tons (6,696 t) light 14,247 long tons (14,476 t) full load |
| Length: | 491 ft (150 m) o/a 465 ft (142 m) p/p |
| Beam: | 65 ft (20 m) |
| Draft: | 25 ft 7 in (7.80 m) maximum |
| Propulsion: | 1 × 7,800 hp (5,816 kW) General Electric turbine, 1 screw |
| Speed: | 17.8 knots (33.0 km/h; 20.5 mph) |
| Armament: | 1942 • 1 × 4"/50 caliber guns • 2 × 3"/50 caliber guns 1943 • 1 × 5"/51 caliber guns • 4 × 3"/50 caliber guns • 8 × 20 mm guns 1945 • 1 × 5"/38 caliber guns • 4 × 3"/50 caliber guns • 8 × 20 mm guns |
USAT J. W. McAndrew was a Type C3-P&C troop ship for the United States Army during World War II.
The ship was built by the Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard of Baltimore in 1940 as SS Delargentino for the United States Maritime Commission on behalf of the Mississippi Shipping Company in 1940. The ship was delivered to Mississippi Shipping in November 1940.
Delargentino was requisitioned by the United States Army as a transport in June 1941 and would have been transferred to the Navy and named USS J. W. McAndrew (AP-47) in 1943, but this was cancelled. While serving as a U.S. Army transport ship in 1945, she collided with French aircraft carrier Béarn with the loss of several lives. Afterward, the ship was repaired, and eventually sold in 1948 to the Farrell Lines for commercial use under the name SS African Enterprise.
The ship was laid up as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet in October 1960, and was finally sold by the Maritime Administration (MARAD) on 9 April 1969. The ship was broken up in Baltimore in February 1972.
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