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Fuller

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TypeTransport (AP)
HullAP-14
BuilderBethlehem Steel, Alameda
Commissioned1941-04-09
FateAfloat. Heywood-class transport. Reclassified APA-7 on 1 February 1943. Decommissioned 20 March 1946.
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Fuller
USS Fuller (AP-14) at anchor in 1941. U.S. Navy photograph NH 86975. Public domain.

USS Fuller (AP-14) was a Heywood-class transport of the United States Navy. Bethlehem Steel built her at Alameda, and the Navy commissioned her on 9 April 1941.

She was a troop transport, a ship meant to carry soldiers and put them ashore. She entered service under the hull number AP-14, the designation she still held when she went into the Guadalcanal landings.

On 7 August 1942 Fuller took part in the landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi. With American Legion, she put the first troops ashore on Beach Red at Guadalcanal. Paul S. Theiss was in command of Fuller that day.

On 1 February 1943 the Navy reclassified her APA-7. That attack-transport number stayed with the hull for the rest of her commissioned service. Fuller survived the war. The Navy decommissioned her on 20 March 1946.

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