USS President Adams (AP-38)
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President Adams (AP-38), probably at Nouméa, New Caledonia, on 4 August 1942, the eve of the Guadalcanal-Tulagi invasion.
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| Name: | USS President Adams |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia |
| Laid down: | 6 June 1940 |
| Launched: | 31 January 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 19 November 1941 |
| Decommissioned: | 14 June 1950 |
| Reclassified: | APA-19, 1 February 1943 |
| Struck: | 1 October 1958 |
| Honors and awards: |
9 battle stars (World War II) |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1974 |
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| Class and type: | President Jackson-class attack transport |
| Displacement: | 16,175 long tons (16,435 t) full |
| Length: | 491 ft 10 in (149.91 m) |
| Beam: | 69 ft 6 in (21.18 m) |
| Draft: | 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m) |
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| Speed: | 17.9 knots (33.2 km/h; 20.6 mph) |
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| Capacity: | 3,600 long tons (3,658 t) |
| Troops: | 76 officers and 1,258 enlisted |
| Complement: | 36 officers and 477 enlisted |
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USS President Adams (AP-38/APA-19) was a President Jackson-class attack transport of the United States Navy, named for John Adams and John Quincy Adams, the second and sixth Presidents of the United States.
President Adams, built under Maritime Commission contract, was laid down as MC hull 57 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia, on 6 June 1940; launched on 31 January 1941; sponsored by Mrs. Robert H. Jackson; delivered to the Navy on 5 June 1941; converted by the Norfolk Navy Yard; and commissioned on 19 November 1941, Commander C. W. Brewington in command.
Stripped for war service with the entry of the United States into World War II, on 7 December 1941, President Adams fired her guns against the enemy, a U-boat, for the first time on Christmas Day. Following the encounter, she continued her shakedown exercises, then, steamed to the Pacific and trained troops off California as she readied for her first amphibious operation. In June 1942, she embarked the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, and got underway on 1 July for the South Pacific. Between 7 and 9 August, as the United States launched the first step on the island-paved path to victory in the Pacific, her LCMs and LCVPs landed the Marines in the Guadalcanal-Tulagi area. Retiring from the area, the converted liner carried casualties to Samoa, whence she began bringing in reinforcements. For six months she transported fresh troops and equipment to, and brought out wounded from, Guadalcanal.
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