&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Mount_Vernon_(AP-22).jpg) USS Mount Vernon (AP-22) In New York City 1941.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Mount Vernon (AP-22) |
| Namesake | Mount Vernon in Virginia |
| Ordered | 24 May 1930 |
| Builder | New York Shipbuilding |
| Laid down | 20 January 1931 |
| Launched | 20 August 1932 |
| Christened | SS Washington |
| Acquired | (by the Navy) 16 June 1941 |
| Commissioned | 16 June 1941 |
| Decommissioned | 18 January 1946 |
| Renamed | USS Mount Vernon (AP-22) |
| Stricken | 1959 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1965 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 24,289 gross register tons |
| Displacement | 34,600 tons (fl) |
| Length | 705 ft 3 in |
| Beam | 86 ft |
| Draft | 31 ft 6 in |
| Propulsion | Parsons steam turbines, Babcock & Wilcox boilers, twin screw, 30,000 shaft horsepower |
| Speed | 20.5 knots |
| Troops | 6,031 |
| Complement | 766 |
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USS Mount Vernon (AP-22) was a troop transport that served with the United States Navy during World War II. Prior to her military service, she was a luxury ocean liner named SS Washington.
Washington was launched in May 1933 by the New York Shipbuilding Company of Camden, New Jersey, and operated as a passenger liner from New York City to Plymouth, England, and Hamburg, Germany. Renamed Mount Vernon 6 June 1941, the liner was acquired by the Navy 16 June 1941 and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard the same day, Captain Donald B. Beary in command.
Converted for naval use by Philadelphia Navy Yard, Mount Vernon trained along the east coast while mounting tension in the Far East drew the United States toward participation in World War II.