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Attack transports were equipped to carry
landing craft and troops with
which to carry out amphibious
assaults. This required that they be ballasted to compensate for
the increased top weight from landing craft and landing craft davits.
Attack transports required a minimum cruising speed of 14 knots to keep
up with fast invasion convoys, and they had more extensive
communications equipment and antiaircraft
armament than ordinary transports. Most were converted from modern
merchant ships.
A typical APA carried about 1500 troops and 15-33 LCVPs and 2-4 LCMs with which to land them. It took about a dozen APAs to land a division.
Bayfield class
Crescent City class
Doyen
class
Frederick Funson class
Haskell class
Ormsby
class
Sumter
class
Windsor
class
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