&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Warren_(APA-53)_at_Hampton_Roads,_Virginia_(USA),_on_23_August_1943_(80-G-78655).jpg) USS Warren (APA-53) at Hampton Roads, 23 August 1943
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Warren (APA-53) |
| Namesake | Joseph Warren, American Revolutionary War hero |
| Builder | Gulf Shipbuilding |
| Laid down | 19 April 1942 |
| Launched | 7 September 1942 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs F. L. (Laura) Leatherbury |
| Acquired | 19 February 1943 |
| Commissioned | 2 August 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 14 March 1946 |
| Reclassified | AP-98 to APA-53, 1 February 1943 |
| Stricken | 17 April 1946 |
| Identification | IMO number: 5024374 |
| Honours and awards | Four battle stars for World War II service |
| Fate | Sold into commercial service 1947, scrapped 1977 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Sumter-class attack transport |
| Displacement | 13,910 tons (fl) |
| Length | 468 ft 8 in |
| Beam | 63 ft |
| Draft | 23 ft 3 in (limiting) |
| Propulsion | 1 × General Electric geared drive turbine, 2 Babcock & Wilcox header-type boilers, 1 propeller, designed shaft horsepower 6,000 |
| Speed | 16.5 knots |
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| Complement | Officers 38, Enlisted 619 |
| Armament | 2 × 5"/38 caliber dual-purpose gun mount, 4 × twin 40 mm gun mounts, 10 × single 20mm gun mounts |
| Notes | MCV Hull No. 415, hull type C2-S-E1 |
USS Warren (APA-53) was a Sumter-class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II. She was named for Founding Father and American Revolutionary War hero Joseph Warren.
Jean Lafitte - named for the legendary pirate of Barataria, Louisiana, who assisted General Andrew Jackson in defending New Orleans against the British in 1815 - was a C2-S-E1-type merchant ship laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 475) on 19 April 1942 at Chickasaw, Alabama, by the Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation. She was launched on 7 September 1942; renamed Warren and classified a transport, AP-98; redesignated as an attack transport, APA-53, on 1 February 1943; and placed in commission, in ordinary, on 19 February 1943.
Taken to the Key Highway plant of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation soon thereafter, the ship was decommissioned on 10 March 1943; and was recommissioned on 2 August 1943.