USS Joseph Hewes (AP-50)
Joseph Hewes in 1942 | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Joseph Hewes |
| Namesake | Joseph Hewes |
| Ordered | as SS Excalibur |
| Builder | New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, New Jersey |
| Laid down | 4 November 1929 |
| Launched | 5 August 1930 |
| Completed | 18 December 1930 |
| Acquired | 8 January 1942 |
| Commissioned | USS Joseph Hewes (AP-50) 1 May 1942 |
| Stricken | struck from the Naval Register, 7 December 1942 |
| Fate | Sunk 11 November 1942 |
| Notes |
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| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 14,100 t. |
| Length | 450 ft (140 m) |
| Beam | 61 ft 6 in (18.75 m) |
| Draft | 26 ft 4 in (8.03 m) |
| Propulsion | steam turbines |
| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 358 |
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USS Joseph Hewes (AP-50/APA-22), formerly SS Excalibur, was a troop transport for the United States Navy during World War II commanded by Captain Robert McLanhan Smith Jr. A part of the Center Attack Group of Admiral Hewitt's Western Naval Task Force, Operation Torch, Joseph Hewes was sunk on November 11, 1942 by the German submarine U-173 in Fedala Roads off French Morocco coast during the Naval Battle of Casablanca.