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USS Henry T. Allen (APA-15)
USS ''Henry T. Allen'' was built as ''Wenatchee'' for the United States Shipping Board (USSB), one of the planned World War I troop transports converted during construction into passenger and cargo vessels, the Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1029 ships. The ship was laid down as ''C. M. Schwab'' and perhaps assigned the name ''Beaver State'' at one point, but renamed ''Wenatchee'' before launch and one of only a few of the design not taking a state nickname. Originally ''Wenatchee'' was operated by the USSB's agents, the Pacific Steamship Company. A mass renaming in the spring of 1921 of all the Design 1095 and Design 1029 ships that had been constructed from keel laying on as passenger and cargo ships with state nicknames as names, the "State" ships, the ship became ''President Jefferson''. The ship was in commercial service until laid up in 1938.
''President Jefferson'' was acquired for the Army Transport Service in 1940, renamed ''Henry T. Allen'' 12 February 1941 and then transferred to the Navy in December 1941. After initial Navy classification as the transport AP-30 the ship was reclassified to APA-15, a ''Harris''-class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II.
==Construction==
''Wenatchee'', hull 240 laid down at New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey 15 June 1918, was one of three hulls intended to become Army transports already under construction at the yard, the others being hull 241 ''Sea Girt'' and hull 242 ''Koda'' when the armistice ended World War I and the design was modified to a civilian passenger and cargo configuration, the Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1029 ships that were known in commerce as the "535's" for their overall length. Of those one had been launched and a second was ready for launch when the USSB changed plans from troop transports to completion as passenger ships. At some point ''Wenatchee'' may have been assigned the name ''Beaver State'' by USSB in conformance with the majority of the ships of the design but the three ships begun as Army transports when the design changed to passenger-cargo ships remained the only ones not formally assigned the state nicknames.〔The ''Pacific Marine Review'' shows ''Beaver State'' being renamed ''President Jefferson'' in a group that includes the other two ships, ''American Legion'' and ''Southern Cross'' (ex ''Sea Girt'') started when the design changed. McKellar shows the ship with ''C. M. Schwab'' as the contract name. References prior to the mass renaming of the "State" ships to "President" names sometimes associate the name ''Beaver State'' with the ship launched as ''Wenatchee''. The "State" names were assigned to new construction of this type intended from the start as commercial ships and ''Beaver State'' may have been briefly assigned. Contemporary sources make it clear the ship was launched as ''Wenatchee'' and remaining so into 1922 when the "President" names became effective. A close look at the period shows proposed names existing only on paper in a number of cases.〕
''Wenatchee'' was launched 24 May 1919 and completed during February 1921, the first of the group to be finished.〔''The Nautical Gazette'', February 12, 1921 shows the ship "undergoing finishing touches" and due to sail for Seattle in late February. The origin of the June completion date in some references is not known.〕 The ship departed New York 12 March 1921 for Seattle, Washington to be the third USSB "535" for the Pacific and first transpacific liner to be based in Seattle in six years.
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