USN · AP
La Salle
Photos and infoTransport, AP-102. Laid down 29 April 1942 as Hotspur at Moore Dry Dock, Oakland. Commissioned 31 March 1943 and renamed La Salle on 6 April 1943. She landed men of the 4th Marine Division at Kwajalein and left the atoll on 8 February 1944. Decommissioned 24 July 1946.
| Type | Transport (AP) |
|---|---|
| Hull | AP-102 |
| Builder | Moore Dry Dock, Oakland |
| Launched | 1942-08-02 |
| Commissioned | 1943-03-31 |
| Fate | Afloat. Decommissioned 24 July 1946. This is AP-102, not a later ship of the same name. |
Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.
USS La Salle (AP-102) underway in San Francisco Bay sometime in 1946, on a Magic Carpet voyage. She was the only ship of her class with a pole instead of a lattice radar mast forward of the stack. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photograph NH 77394, as shown on NavSource. Public domain.
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Marshall Islands
1944-01-31 · landed men of the 4th Marine Division at Kwajalein and left on 8 February
