Allied Warships

USS Horace A. Bass (APD 124)

High speed transport of the Crosley class


USS Horance A. Bass as completed

NavyThe US Navy
TypeHigh speed transport
ClassCrosley 
PennantAPD 124 
Built byBethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down3 Aug 1944 
Launched12 Sep 1944 
Commissioned21 Dec 1944 
End service30 Jul 1969 
History

Laid down as the Rudderow class destroyer escort USS Horace A. Bass (DE 691).
Decommissioned on 9 February 1959.
Recommissioned at an unknown date.
Decommissioned on 30 July 1969.
Stricken on 15 September 1974.
Sold to be broken up for scrap on 11 August 1975.

 

Commands listed for USS Horace A. Bass (APD 124)

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1T/Lt.Cdr. Frederick William Kuhn, USN21 Dec 1944

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