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USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25)

USN · AP

Arthur Middleton

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Afloat

Attack transport, APA-25, ex AP-55, the former African Comet. Ingalls laid her down at Pascagoula on 1 July 1940. Commissioned 7 September 1942. Commander P. K. Perry, Coast Guard, had her at commissioning. The command list calls him Captain Paul Kelly Perry. She grounded at Amchitka on 12 January 1943 after taking survivors from Worden, and was reclassified APA-25 on 1 February while still aground. Tarawa, the Marshalls, Saipan, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, and Okinawa. Decommissioned at Norfolk on 21 October 1946 and sold for scrap in 1973. One history gives seven battle stars. The campaign list gives six.

TypeTransport (AP)
HullAPA-25
BuilderIngalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula
Launched1941-06-28
Commissioned1942-09-07
FateAfloat. Decommissioned at Norfolk on 21 October 1946 and placed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Struck on 1 October 1958. Sold for scrap on 9 May 1973 to Consolidated Steel Corporation, Brownsville, Texas, and withdrawn on 10 August 1973.
Command
  • Perry, Paul Kelly Commanding officer from 7 September 1942; Commissioning line calls him Commander P. K. Perry, Coast Guard; Relieved on 31 July 1943

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

Underway at sea on 18 September 1943. Naval History and Heritage Command photograph NH 107711. U.S. Navy photograph. Public domain.

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Command

PPPerry, Paul KellyCommanding officer from 7 September 1942Commissioning line calls him Commander P. K. Perry, Coast GuardRelieved on 31 July 1943

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