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U.S.S. NOBLE
(APA-218)Click to view crew list
USS NOBLE (APA-218 ) - a Haskell-class attack transport
In Commission 1944 to 1946APA-218 Deployments - Major Events
Add a APA-218 Shellback Initiation | Add a APA-218 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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JUL | 1944 | - | Keel Date: 20 JUL 1944 at Permanente Metals | ||
OCT | 1944 | - | Launch Date: 18 OCT 1944 | ||
NOV | 1944 | - | Commissioned: 27 NOV 1944 | ||
SEP | 1950 | - | SEP | 1950 | Inchon amphibious assault. |
JAN | 1955 | - | DEC | 1955 | West Pac |
NOV | 1961 | - | JUN | 1962 | West Pac |
NOV | 1961 | - | JUN | 1962 | West Pac |
NOV | 1961 | - | JUN | 1962 | West Pac |
JAN | 1962 | - | DEC | 1963 | Cuban Missle Blockade |
JAN | 1962 | - | DEC | 1962 | Panama Canal |
SEP | 1962 | - | NOV | 1963 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
OCT | 1962 | - | DEC | 1962 | Cuban Missle Blockade |
OCT | 1962 | - | DEC | 1962 | Cuban Missle Blockade |
NOV | 1962 | - | DEC | 1962 | Cuban Missle Blockade |
DEC | 1962 | - | NOV | 1963 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JAN | 1963 | - | NOV | 1963 | westpac viet nam |
JAN | 1963 | - | NOV | 1963 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
MAR | 1963 | - | NOV | 1963 | vietnam |
MAR | 1963 | - | DEC | 1963 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
AUG | 1963 | - | NOV | 1963 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
DEC | 1963 | - | JAN | 1964 | West Pac |
JUL | 1964 | - | Decommissioned: 1 JUL 1964 |
APA-218 General Specifications
Class: Haskell-class attack transport
Named for: Counties in Indiana
Displacement: 6873 tons
Length: 455 feet
Beam: 62 feet
Draft: 24 feet
Final Disposition: Sold to the Spanish Navy 19 December 1964
USS NOBLE (APA-218)
Noble
(APA-218) was laid down as MCV hull 566, 20 July 1944 by
Permanente Metals Corp., Richmond, Calif. as a modified Victory ship; completed
by the Kaiser Shipyard at Richmond; launched 18 October 1944; sponsored by Mrs.
Maxine C. Jones; acquired by the Navy 27 November 1944; and commissioned the
same day, Comdr. Solomon S. Isquith in command.
Noble's
primary mission was to transport to a combat area the men
and some of the material necessary for an assault on an enemy shore. Her main
armament, her boat group, was designed to deliver her troops and cargo to the
beach in a planned and orderly fashion. After discharging troops and equipment,
she could evacuate casualties or prisoners of war.
In January 1945 Noble steamed westward to participate in the Okinawa campaign. Upon
termination of the war she assisted in the delivery of released allied
prisoners of war from Korea to the Philippines. She also participated in
Operation Magic Carpet, returning servicemen from the Pacific to the United
States.
Noble
was attached to the Atlantic Fleet from 1946 through 1949,
operating out of Norfolk, Va. She returned to San Diego 13 September 1949 and
was undergoing overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, San Francisco when war
broke out in Korea in June 1950. In August she steamed to Korea to participate
in the September Inchon amphibious assault. Thereafter she assisted in the
transport of U.S. and foreign troops and equipment to and from the Korean
combat zone. In July 1953 she participated in Operation Big Switch, moving
Communist North Korean prisoners from Koje Do to Inchon pursuant to the
armistic agreement.
Subsequent to the Korean War Noble conducted training operations in
both the eastern and western Pacific areas. In 1955 she assisted in the
evacuation of Chinese civilians and military from the Tachen Islands to
Formosa.
At the outset of the Cuban crisis 27
October 1962, Noble embarked 1,400
Marines with their equipment and steamed for the Caribbean in company with
other Pacific Fleet amphibious units. She returned to San Diego in December,
then deployed to WestPac in March 1963 for a tour with the 7th Fleet Amphibious
Ready Group.
Noble
returned to San Diego in December 1963 and conducted upkeep
and training operations until she decommissioned 1 July 1964. She then entered
the Mare Island Naval Shipyard for preparation for transfer to Spain under the
Mutual Assistance Program. The transfer ceremony took place 19 December at San
Francisco.
[Note: The above USS NOBLE (APA-218) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS NOBLE (APA-218), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]