APL-2-class barracks ship
{{Short description|Class of United States Navy barrack ships}}
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| infobox caption = | display title = | sclass = 2 }} {{Infobox ship image | Ship image = File:APL-4 on 1 October 1993.jpg | Ship image size = | Ship caption = USS APL-4 }} {{Infobox ship class overview | Name = APL-2 class | Total ships building = | Total ships scrapped = | Total ships retired = 8 | Total ships lost = | Total ships laid up = | Total ships active = 4 | Total ships cancelled = 3 | Total ships completed = 12 | Total ships on order = | Builders = *Puget Sound Navy Yard | Total ships planned = 15 | In commission range = 1944-1946 | Built range = 1943-1945 | Cost = | Subclasses = | Class after = APL-17 class | Class before = Edmund B. Alexander class | Operators = *{{navy|US}}
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|Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship capacity=*0 officers
|Ship armament= 4 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons |Ship armor= |Ship aircraft= |Ship notes= }} |
The APL-2-class barracks ship was a class of barracks ships of the United States Navy after the Second World War, in the late 1940s.{{Cite web|title=APL-2 Class|url=https://www.shipscribe.com/usnaux/APL/APL02.html|access-date=2022-01-19|website=www.shipscribe.com}}
Development
Twelve ships were built during World War II with 3 cancelled.{{Cite web|date=August 5, 2020|title=Barracks Ships and Barges (APB, APL)|url=http://shipbuildinghistory.com/smallships/auxapl.htm|url-status=live|access-date=January 19, 2022|website=shipbuildinghistory|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226142932/http://shipbuildinghistory.com:80/smallships/auxapl.htm |archive-date=26 February 2018 }} APL-12 and APL-13 were intentionally destroyed after being grounded by Typhoon Louise at Okinawa, by demolition charges, in February 1946.{{Cite web|title=Non Self-propelled Barracks Ship (APL)|url=http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/71/7112.htm|access-date=2022-01-19|website=www.navsource.org}}{{Cite web|title=Non Self-propelled Barracks Ship (APL)|url=http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/71/7113.htm|access-date=2022-01-19|website=www.navsource.org}} Franklin D. Roosevelt approved the construction of tenders and repair ships in May 1943, it was then recommended by the Auxiliary Vessels Board on 11 June later that year, the construction of barracks ships.
The class consists of barges with a two-story barracks built on top instead of the a warehouse design, and they had an auxiliary vessel designation of "A". Moreover, on their top deck, 4 Oerlikon 20 mm cannons were placed together with 2 gun and their platforms on each side of the ship. The guns were later removed after being put into the reserve fleet in 1946.
Since 2011, only 4 ships have been in service at Naval Station San Diego.
Ships of class
| class="wikitable" |
| colspan="7" |APL-2-class barracks ship |
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| Name
!Builders !Laid down !Launched !Commissioned !Decommissioned !Fate |
| APL-2
| rowspan="6" |Puget Sound Navy Yard |12 May 1944 |6 July 1944 |25 May 1945 | - |CincPacFlt Berthing and Messing Program and is berthed at San Diego{{Cite web|title=APL-2 - Google Search|url=https://www.google.com/search?q=APL-2&tbm=isch&dpr=1|access-date=2022-01-19|website=www.google.com}} |
| APL-3
|31 May 1944 |3 August 1944 |30 July 1945 | - |Scrapped in 1974 |
| APL-4
|27 May 1944 |3 August 1944 |21 September 1945 | - |CincPacFlt Berthing and Messing Program and is berthed at San Diego |
| APL-5
|8 July 1944 |14 November 1944 |5 November 1945 | - |CincPacFlt Berthing and Messing Program and is berthed at San Diego |
| APL-6
|5 August 1944 |12 February 1945 | colspan="3" |Cancelled on 27 August 1945, completed as barge CROWN No.2 |
| APL-7
|5 August 1944 |12 February 1945 | colspan="3" |Cancelled on 27 August 1945, completed as barge CROWN No.1 |
| APL-8
| rowspan="3" |Nashville Bridge Co. |21 March 1944 |5 June 1944 |6 October 1944 | - |Sold to commercial service as merchant barge MLC-261 (ON 580686), 1974{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-9ouqaIsgmsC&dq=MLC-261+%28ON+580686%29&pg=PA2013|title=Merchant Vessels of the United States|publisher=U.S. Coast Guard|year=1976|volume=2|pages=2013}} |
| APL-9
|5 May 1944 |21 July 1944 |24 November 1944 | - |Sold to commercial service as merchant barge MLC-260 (ON 581255), 1974 |
| APL-10
|12 July 1944 |19 September 1944 |6 January 1945 | - |Sold to commercial service as merchant barge MLC-263 (ON 561018), 1974 |
| APL-11
| rowspan="3" |Boston Navy Yard |5 August 1944 |4 September 1944 |10 October 1944 | - |Sunk as target by ComNavAirPac, 18 March 1974 |
| APL-12
|5 August 1944 |4 September 1944 |24 October 1944 | - |Destroyed on 26 January 1946 |
| APL-13
|5 September 1944 |12 October 1944 |20 November 1944 |23 November 1945 |Destroyed on 22 February 1946 |
| APL-14
| rowspan="2" |Nashville Bridge Co. |11 September 1944 |17 January 1944 |29 June 1944 |3 January 1946 |Sold to Foreign Liquidation Committee (FLC), May 1947 |
| APL-15
|29 October 1943 |29 January 1944 |1 August 1944 | - |CincPacFlt Berthing and Messing Program and is berthed at San Diego |
| APL-16
| colspan="6" |Cancelled on 22 October 1943 |
See also
External links
- {{navsource|09/71/71idx|Barracks ships of the US Navy}}