 Destination
Beppu
or, for the kids, "Are We There Yet? |
USS Breckinridge
at Pier 2, Fort Mason |
Piers 2 & 3
56 years later |
Tug Boat
eases the ship into the channel |
Good To Go
Tug returns, Alcatraz in background |
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 HEY
DAD, WHAT ABOUT ME?
San Francisco, July 9 --- Little Lauren wears a downcast expression
as her father, MSgt. Lee Von Duyke, of Columbus, Ohio, holding infant
son, Mark, kisses wife goodbye aboard transport U.S.S. Breckenridge.
The vessel sailed to Japan with 365 wives, children and dependents
of the sergeant's outfit, the 508th Airborne Regimental Combat Team,
being airlifted to Japan in 43 giant C-124 Globemasters to relieve
the 187th ARCT.
[The Miami News, Miami, FL, 09
Jul 1955, Sat, page 3, AP wire photo]
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Golden Gate
slides astern
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USS Breckinridge
Statistics
Named after US Army General James Carson Breckinridge (1877-1942),
the USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176) was a General John Pope
class troop transport.
Built at Kearny, NJ, and commissioned
on 30 June 1945, she served with the US Navy during WW II, Korean
War and Vietnam War. In October 1949 she was redeslgnated T-AP-176
.
The Breckinridge/T-AP 176 had steam turbines producing 17,000 horsepower
with twin shafts, and could attain a maximum speed of 21 knots (~
24 mph) 5,000 miles = 4344
In 1988 the ship was scrapped in Taiwan.
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