USS Windsor (APA-55)

	USS Windsor underway in harbor, c. 1943
History
United States
Name	USS Windsor (APA-55)
Namesake	Windsor County, Vermont
Builder	Bethlehem Sparrow's Point Shipyard
Laid down	23 July 1942
Launched	28 December 1942
Sponsored by	Miss Patricia Moreell
Commissioned	17 June 1943 as APA-55
Decommissioned	4 March 1946
Reclassified	APA-55 on 16 June 1943
Stricken	12 April 1946
Honors and; awards	5 battle stars
Fate	Scrapped in Taiwan in 1972
General characteristics
Class and type	Windsor class attack transport
Displacement	13,143 tons
Length	473 ft 1 in (144.20 m)
Beam	66 ft (20 m)
Draft	25 ft (7.6 m)
Propulsion	two boilers, one geared turbine drive, single shaft, 8,000 hp (6,000 kW)
Speed	18.6 knots (21.4 mph; 34.4 km/h)
Troops	1,511
Complement	552
Armament	2 × 5"/38 caliber gun mounts; 2 × single 40 mm AA mounts; 2 × twin 20 mm guns AA mounts; 18 × single 20 mm mounts;

USS Windsor (APA-55) was a Windsor-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1972.

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