GENERAL C. H. MUIR

AP 142

 

BUILT:  1944  BEAM:  71'  DRAFT:  29' 
LENGTH:  523'   CARGO [cu ft]:    PASS [troop ship]: 3,000-3,800 
PROPULSION: Turbine   RADIUS [miles]:   TONS: 10,654 
TYPE:  C4 SPEED [knots]:  17  DEPENDENTS TO JAPAN: ?

Launched 1944, commissioned 1945.  Handed over to the Army in 1946, and taken over by the Navy in 1950 for MSTS.  Laid up in Suisun Bay in 1969, later rebuilt.

Ref:  http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22142.htm 

 

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