USS Leyden (IX-167)

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Name: USS Leyden
Builder: Harlan and Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Delaware
Launched: 1911
Acquired: 22 May 1944
Commissioned: 22 May 1944
Decommissioned: 23 July 1945
Fate: Sold into commercial service, 7 November 1946
General characteristics
Displacement: 2,500 long tons (2,540 t)
Length: 291 ft 2 in (88.75 m)
Beam: 51 ft (16 m)
Draft: 18 ft (5.5 m)
Speed: 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)

USS Leyden (IX-167), was an auxiliary transport ship of the United States Navy during World War II. She was built as the Northland by Harlan & Hollingsworth Corp., Wilmington, Delaware, in 1911.

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Service history

During the first part of World War II, she operated as a transport with the British Royal Navy. She was assigned the name Leyden (IX-167) on 18 May 1944, acquired by the US Navy and commissioned on 22 May 1944, Lt. William S. Johnson in command.

From her commissioning until July 1945, Leyden operated as a naval auxiliary in British staging areas and French ports during the final European campaigns of World War II.

Leyden was decommissioned at Falmouth, England, on 23 July 1945 for return to the War Shipping Administration (WSA), and was sold to the Fu Chung International Corp., on 7 November 1946. She was renamed Hung Chong.

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The War Shipping Administration (WSA) was a World War II emergency war agency of the US government, tasked to purchase and operate the civilian shipping tonnage the US needed for fighting the war. Both shipbuilding under the Maritime Commission and ship allocation under the WSA to Army, Navy or civilian needs were closely coordinated though Vice Admiral Emory S. Land who continued as head of the Maritime Commission while also heading the WSA.

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