USS General S. D. Sturgis

General S. D. Sturgis on 16 July 1944
History
United States
Name	General S. D. Sturgis
Namesake	Samuel Davis Sturgis
Builder	Kaiser Co., Inc. Richmond, California
Laid down	date unknown
Launched	12 November 1943
Acquired	31 March 1944
Commissioned	10 July 1944
Decommissioned	24 May 1946
In service	after 24 May 1946 (Army) 1 March 1950 (MSTS)
Out of service	1 March 1950 (Army) 28 May 1955 (MSTS)
Renamed	SS Green Port
Reclassified	T-AP-137, 1 March 1950
Identification	IMO number: 6810691 Radio call sign: NJCO[1]
Fate	Scrapped February 1980[1]
General characteristics
Class and type	General G. O. Squier-class transport ship
Displacement	9,950 tons (light), 17,250 tons (full)
Length	522 ft 10 in (159.36 m)
Beam	71 ft 6 in (21.79 m)
Draft	24 ft (7.32 m)
Propulsion	single-screw steam turbine with 9,900 shp (7,400 kW)
Speed	17 knots (31 km/h)
Capacity	3,343 troops
Complement	356 (officers and enlisted)
Armament	4 × 5"/38 caliber guns 8 × 1.1"/75 AA guns 16 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns

USS General S. D. Sturgis (AP-137) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. She was named in honor of U.S. Army general Samuel Davis Sturgis. She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General S. D. Sturgis in 1946. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS General S. D. Sturgis (T-AP-137). She was later sold for commercial operation under the name SS Green Port, before being scrapped in 1980.^[1]