Name USS APc-15 Fate Sold, 13 January 1947 Builder Camden | Launched 9 July 1942 Length 31 m Part of Task Force 76 | |
Laid down 29 April 1942, as a coastal minesweeper AMc-155 Commissioned 27 October 1942, as APc-15 Name Gulf Trader (1947)
La Belle (1948)
Black Trader (1963) | ||
USS APc-15 was a United States Navy APc-1-class small coastal transport vessel in World War II. Laid down on 29 April 1942 as Coastal Minesweeper AMc-155 at Camden Ship Building and Marineway, Camden, Maine, she was launched on 9 July 1942 and commissioned as APc-25 on 27 October 1942.
She served with the Seventh Fleet Amphibious Force in the South West Pacific Area conducting operations off the coast of New Guinea. She took part in the Bismarck Archipelago Operations around Arawe, New Britain between 17-18 and 25-26 December 1943.
Fate
She sank in 1998 at Deas Slough near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
References
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