USS Cread (APD-88)

USS Cread (APD-88) was a Crosley-class high speed transport that served in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946. She was sold for scrapping in 1961.

History
United States of America
Name: Cread
Namesake: Walter Irving Cread (US Navy, KIA on 12 December 1942)
Operator:  United States Navy
Laid down: 6 October 1943
Launched: 2 February 1944
Sponsored by: H. Bergman
Commissioned: 29 July 1945
Decommissioned: 15 March 1946
Reclassified: 17 July 1944
Stricken: 1 June 1960
Honors and
awards:
Fate: Sold for scrapping, 16 March 1961.
General characteristics
Displacement: 1,400 tons
Length: 306 ft (93 m)
Beam: 37 ft (11 m)
Draft: 12 ft 7 in (4 m)
Propulsion:
Speed: 23.6 knots (27.2 mph; 43.7 km/h)
Range: 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h)
Boats & landing
craft carried:		 4 LCVPs
Troops:
  • 12 officers
  • 150 enlisted
Complement:
  • 12-15 officers
  • 189-192 enlisted
Armament:

History

USS Cread was laid down as Rudderow-class destroyer escort "DE-227" on 16 October 1943 at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and launched on 12 February 1944. She was converted to a Crosley-class high speed transport before her construction was complete, and commissioned on 29 July 1945.

Decommissioning and fate

The war ended before her training was complete and she was decommissioned on 15 March 1946, and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Green Cove Springs, Florida. She was stricken from the Naval Register on 1 June 1960, and sold for scrapping to the Southern Scrap Metal Company on 16 March 1961.

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