Name USS APc-21 Launched 2 September 1942 Operation Battle of Arawe | Fate Sunk, 17 December 1943 Length 31 m Part of Task Force 76 | |
Builder Hodgdon Brothers, Goudy and Stevens, East Boothbay, Maine Laid down 24 May 1942, as a coastal minesweeper AMc-173 Commissioned 27 February 1943, as APc-21 Class and type APc-1 class small coastal transport vessel | ||
USS APc-21 was a United States Navy APc-1-class small coastal transport vessel in World War II. Laid down on 24 May 1942 as Coastal Minesweeper AMc-173 at Hodgdon Brothers, and Goudy and Stevens, East Boothbay, Maine, she was launched on 2 September 1942 and commissioned as APc-21 on 27 February 1943.
She sailed from Maine to Brisbane, Australia and served with the Seventh Fleet Amphibious Force in the South West Pacific Area conducting operations off the coast of New Guinea. She was participating in the landings during the battle of Arawe when struck by a bomb from an enemy air attack off Arawe, New Britain on 17 December 1943 and sank within four minutes.
Wreck location: 6°14′57″S 149°0′53″E
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