USS McCawley (APA-4)
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| Career | 
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 1928 |
| Purchased: | 26 July 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 11 September 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Sunk 30 June 1943 |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 9,600 tons |
| Length: | 586 feet 6 inches |
| Beam: | 63 feet 6 inches |
| Draught: | 25 feet 6 inches |
| Propulsion: | steam turbine |
| Speed: | 17 knots |
| Complement: | 304 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 1 × 5 in/38 4 × 3/50 guns (4x1) 4 × 40mm AA guns (2x2) 18 × 20mm AA guns (20x1) |
USS McCawley (AP-10/APA-4) was a McCawley-class transport for the United States Navy which served in World War II. The ship was the 2nd McCawley to be named for Colonel Charles McCawley.
McCawley was built as SS Santa Barbara, a civilian passenger liner completed in 1928 by the Furness Shipbuilding Company, in Haverton Hill-on-the-Tees, England.
The United States Navy purchased the ship 26 July 1940. The Navy designated McCawley as AP-10, a transport. Later in 1942, the Navy sent McCawley to join the Pacific Fleet, where the ship would be redesignated APA-4 and reclassifed as an 'Attack Transport'.
McCawley would come under fire and be struck by a torpedo from a Japanese plane on 30 June 1943. However the critical blow to the ship came a few hours later, when a group of US PT boats mistook the McCawley for an enemy ship, and torpedoed her.
See USS McCawley for other ships of the same name.
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