Elizabeth C. Stanton Class Transports - USS Anne Arundel, USS Lyon, USS Florence Nightingale, USS Elizabeth C. Stanton (Paperback)

Chapters: USS Anne Arundel, USS Lyon, USS Florence Nightingale, USS Elizabeth C. Stanton, Elizabeth C. Stanton class transport, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: USS Anne Arundel (AP-76) was an American transport ship that was built in 1940 and scrapped in 1970. Originally laid down as the Mormacyork, she was later named after Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Annapolis is the county seat there, the state capital, and also the home of the Naval Academy. Anne Arundel earned five battle stars for her World War II service. Mormacyork was a type C3 ship laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 43) on 18 July 1940 at Kearny, New Jersey, by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. Launched on 16 November 1940; sponsored by Mrs. William T. Moore, she was owned and operated by Moore-McCormack Lines, and ran voyages from the east coast of the United States to South American and Mediterranean ports. She was acquired by the Navy from the War Shipping Administration on 13 September 1942 and converted for naval service as a transport at Brooklyn, by the Robbins Shipbuildin