USS Elmore
APA-245: USS Maricopa
Haskell-class attack transport (0*)Cancelled, 1945
APA-246: USS McLennan
Haskell-class attack transport (0*)Cancelled, 1945
APA-247: USS Mecklenburg
Haskell-class attack transport (0*)Cancelled, 1945
Post WWII APAs
APA-248: USS Paul Revere
Paul Revere-class attack transport (0*)
• Laid down, 15 May 1952, as SS Diamond Mariner, a Maritime Administration type (C4-S-1A) hull, under Maritime Administration contract (MA hull 27), at New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J.
• Launched, 11 April 1953
• Delivered to the Maritime Administration, 22 December 1953, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet
• Acquired by the US Navy, 14 September 1956
• Converted to an Attack Transport at Todd Shipbuilding Corp, San Pedro, CA.
• Commissioned USS Paul Revere (APA-248), 3 September 1958, at Long Beach, CA., CAPT. Robert B. Erly in command
• During Vietnam War USS Paul Revere participated in the eight campaigns
• Redesignated Amphibious Transport (LPA-248), 1 January 1969
• Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register 1 January 1980
• Sold through the Security Assistance Program to Spain, 17 January 1980, commissioned SPS Castillia (L-21)
• Retired by the Spanish Navy, 6 June 1998
• Struck by the Spanish Navy per Resolution 78/98, 11 March 1998
• USS Paul Revere earned the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and the Vietnam Service Medal with seven campaign stars for Vietnam War service
• Final Disposition: fate unknown
APA-249: USS Francis Marion
Paul Revere-class attack transport (0*)
• Laid down as SS Prairie Mariner, a Maritime Administration type (C4-S-1A) hull, under a Maritime Administration contract, at New York Shipbuilding Corp, Camden, N.J.
• Launched, 13 February 1954
• Delivered to the Maritime Administration, 25 May 1954
• Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, 6 January 1955
• Acquired by the Navy, 16 March 1959
• Commissioned USS Francis Marion (APA-249), 6 July 1961, CAPT. David S. Bill, Jr. in command
• Redesignated Amphibious Transport (LPA-249), 1 January 1969
• Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 1 January 1980
• Sold to Spain, 11 July 1980, under the Security Assistance Program, renamed Aragón (L-22)
• Decommissioned by the Spanish Navy in 2000
• Final Disposition, as of 2002 in use as a training hulk by UOE ("Unidad de Operaciones Especiales", Special Operations Unit) at La Carraca, Cádiz, Spain
• Struck by the Spanish Navy per Order 600/15622/00), 20 September 2000
• Final Disposition, fate unknown
