Category: USS Napa (APA-157), United States Navy
Categories: United States Navy Ships
- This category contains profiles of those who served aboard the USS Napa
- Laid down: 7 June 1944
- Launched: 12 August 1944
- Commissioned: 1 October 1944
- Decommissioned: 24 May 1946
- Reclassified: LPA-157, 1 January 1969
- Struck: 17 June 1946
- Honors and awards: 1 battle star (World War II)
- Fate: Sold for scrap, 17 May 1983
USS Napa (APA-157) was a Haskell-class attack transport of the United States Navy. The ship was laid down under Maritime Commission contract (MCV hull 123) on 7 June 1944 by the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, of Portland, Oregon; launched on August 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Cranston Williams; acquired from the Maritime Commission on a loan-charter basis and commissioned on 1 October 1944, Captain Francis J. Firth in command.
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