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USS Mount Vernon (AP-22)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Whiskey - Foxtrot - Charlie
NWFC

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right top to bottom
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (13-16 January 1942, Singapore) - American Defense Service Medal (with "A" device) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Service Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Laid down, date unknown, as SS Washington at New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N.J.

Launched, May 1933

Delivered to the United States Line for commercial service between the US and Europe

Renamed SS Mount Vernon, 6 June 1941

Acquired by the US Navy, 16 June 1941

Commissioned USS Mount Vernon (AP-22), 16 June 1941, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Philadelphia, PA., CAPT. Donald B. Beary in command

During and after World War II USS Mount Vernon operated in both the European and Pacific Theaters

Decommissioned, 18 January 1946

Struck from the Naval Register, 7 February 1946

Returned to the Maritime Commission, renamed SS Washington

Returned, 18 January 1946, to the United States Lines

Returned to the Maritime Commission, 12 February 1953, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Hudson River Group

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 5 June 1965, to Union Minerals & Alloys Corp. for $238,126.93 (PD-X-629), withdrawn 28 June 1964

Specifications:
Displacement 24,289 t.
Length 705' 3"
Beam 86'
Draft 30' 9" (lim)
Speed 21.5 kts

Complement

Officers 55

Enlisted 710

Troop Capacity

Officers 301

Enlisted 5,730

Cargo Capacity 1,060 DWT

non-refrigerated 292,128 Cu. ft.

Largest Boom Capacity 30 t.

Armament

four single 5"/38 cal dual purpose gun mounts

four single 3"/50 cal dual purpose gun mounts

two twin 40mm AA gun mounts

eight .50 cal machine guns

Fuel Capacities

NSFO 31,400 Bbls

Diesel 300 Bbls

Propulsion

two New York Shipbuilding steam turbines

six Babcock and Wilcox A-type boilers, 400psi 695°

single Falk Main Reduction Gears

four turbo-drive 500Kw 120V/240V D.C. Ship's Service Generators

two propellers, 30,000shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
Pre and Post War Commercial Service
	62k	United States Lines' SS Washington in the final stages of construction in a fitting out berth at the New York Shipbuilding Company's shipyard in Camden, NJ, February 1933.	Scott at LBS Products
	386k	United States Lines' SS Washington First Day Cover featuring the first voyage of the Washington, postmarked US GFR Sea Post, 10 May 1933.	Tommy Trampp
	532k	United States Lines' SS Washington Farewell Dinner menu, 29 May 1934.	Tommy Trampp
	21k	SS Washington , postcard image.	Scott at LBS Products
	75k	Line drawing in color of the United States Lines' SS Washington.	Scott at LBS Products
	142k	Post card image of the United States Lines' SS Washington underway, circa 1951, location unknown.	Tommy Trampp
	150k	Post card image of the United States Lines' SS Washington underway, date and location unknown.	Tommy Trampp
	210k	United States Lines' SS Washington at anchor, date and location unknown. Photo from "Passenger Liners of the World Since 1893" (1979) by Nicholas T. Cairis.	Tommy Trampp
USAT Washington
	186k	USAT Washington underway, date and location unknown. She is in Army markings during the few weeks of 1941 after she was acquired from the United States Lines and before she was handed over to the Navy where she became *USS Mount Vernon* (AP-22)**. US Army Military History Institute photo. Photo and text from "U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II", by Donald H. Grover	Robert Hurst
USS Mount Vernon (AP-22)
	103k	*Namesake* Mount Vernon. the plantation of George Washington, the first President of the United States, and his wife, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington. The estate is situated on the banks of the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia, near Alexandria, across from Prince George's County, Maryland. The Washington family had owned land in the area since the time of Washington's great-grandfather in 1674. Around 1734 they embarked on an expansion of the estate that continued under George Washington, who began leasing the estate in 1754, but did not become its sole owner until 1761. Wikipedia Commons	Tommy Trampp
	53k	*USS Mount Vernon* (AP-22)**, date and place unknown.	Robert E. Houle, CM2c, SSMT1c and Joseph R. Houle CCM former crew members
	65k	*USS Mount Vernon* (AP-22)** at speed. date and place unknown.	Robert E. Houle, CM2c, SSMT1c and Joseph R. Houle CCM former crew members
	822k	*USS Mount Vernon* (AP-22)** underway off of San Francisco, 15 March 1943. Photo taken from an airship belonging to Lighter-than-Air Squadron (ZP-31) from NAS Santa Ana.	Robert Hurst
		Click on the *USS Mount Vernon* Cruise Book** to see the story of this World War II transport	Robert E. Houle, CM2c, SSMT1c and Joseph R. Houle CCM former crew members