High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Susan B. Anthony
(AP-72) was a transport ship in the United States Navy during World
War II, named after the prominent civil rights campaigner, and one
of the few Naval vessels named after a woman. Originally a
passenger steamer built at Camden, New Jersey for the Grace
Steamship Company, she was launched in March 1930 by the New York
Shipbuilding Corporation as SS Santa Clara. She was acquired by the
Navy on 7 August 1942; renamed Susan B. Anthony and converted at
Bethlehem Steel's New York yard; and commissioned on 7 September
1942, Captain Henry Hartley assumed command on the 29th.
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