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data-file-height="650" /></span></span></span><span style="padding-left:1em">United States</span></th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Name</td><td>USS <i>Geneva</i> (APA-86)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Namesake</td><td><a href="/wiki/Geneva_County,_Alabama" title="Geneva County, Alabama">Geneva County, Alabama</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Builder</td><td><a href="/wiki/Consolidated_Steel" class="mw-redirect" title="Consolidated Steel">Consolidated Steel</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Launched</td><td>31 January 1945</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Sponsored by</td><td>Mrs. Leonard Firestone</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Acquired</td><td>21 March 1944</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Commissioned</td><td>22 March 1945</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Decommissioned</td><td>23 January 1947</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Stricken</td><td>25 February 1947</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Fate</td><td>Sold for scrap, 2 November 1966</td></tr> <tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">General characteristics</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Class and type</td><td><i>Gilliam</i>-class <a href="/wiki/Attack_transport" title="Attack transport">attack transport</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Displacement</td><td>4,247 tons (lt), 7,080 t.(fl)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td>426 ft</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>58 ft</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Draft</td><td>16 ft</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Propulsion</td><td><a href="/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_Corporation_(1886)" class="mw-redirect" title="Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1886)">Westinghouse</a> turboelectric drive, 2 boilers, 2 propellers, Design shaft horsepower 6,000</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Speed</td><td>17 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Capacity</td><td>47 Officers, 802 Enlisted</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Crew</td><td>27 Officers, 295 Enlisted</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armament</td><td>1 x <a href="/wiki/5%22/38_caliber_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="5"/38 caliber gun">5"/38 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She was scrapped in 1966. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Geneva&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Geneva</i> was named after a county in <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a>. She was launched under Maritime Commission contract 31 January 1945 by <a href="/wiki/Consolidated_Steel" class="mw-redirect" title="Consolidated Steel">Consolidated Steel</a> at <a href="/wiki/Wilmington,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilmington, California">Wilmington, California</a>; acquired by the Navy 21 March 1945 and commissioned the following day. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II">World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Geneva&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following shakedown out of San Diego, <i>Geneva</i> departed that port 19 May 1945 with over 500 marines and sailors for <a href="/wiki/Pearl_Harbor" title="Pearl Harbor">Pearl Harbor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Majuro" title="Majuro">Majuro</a> atoll, <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Islands" title="Marshall Islands">Marshall Islands</a>, where she arrived 7 June. After embarking marines and <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial Japan">Japanese</a> <a href="/wiki/Prisoners_of_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Prisoners of war">prisoners of war</a>, she picked up additional passengers at <a href="/wiki/Kwajalein" class="mw-redirect" title="Kwajalein">Kwajalein</a> for passage to Pearl Harbor. At Pearl Harbor, she picked up veterans whom she landed at San Francisco 27 June. </p><p>Proceeding to <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>, she embarked nearly a thousand soldiers for the <a href="/wiki/Garrison" title="Garrison">garrison</a> forces on <a href="/wiki/Okinawa_Island" title="Okinawa Island">Okinawa</a>, debarking them at <a href="/wiki/Buckner_Bay" class="mw-redirect" title="Buckner Bay">Buckner Bay</a> 12 August. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="After_hostilities">After hostilities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Geneva&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: After hostilities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Geneva</i> sailed from Okinawa 5 September for <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a> and landed Army units at <a href="/wiki/Inchon" class="mw-redirect" title="Inchon">Inchon</a> 8 September. She returned to Okinawa 15 September, weathered a typhoon, and embarked the 11th Artillery Regiment of the 4th Marine Battalion and their cargo for passage to <a href="/wiki/Taku_Forts" title="Taku Forts">Taku</a>, China, where she arrived 5 October. There she received 21 European repatriates on board, embarked 302 others at <a href="/wiki/Qingdao" title="Qingdao">Qingdao</a> 7 October, and carried her passengers to <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> on the 13th. </p><p>These 302 passengers were also European repatriates, mostly British, who had spent between three and four years in various Japanese concentration camps. They had been rescued from the <i>Weihsien Civil Assembly Centre</i> at what is now Weifang city, Shandong Province, on 17 August 1945 by 7 US paratroopers of the Duck Mission, only two days after VJ Day. In Hong Kong the passengers were handed over to the British forces, and repatriated to their home countries in the next few months by <a href="/w/index.php?title=RAPWI&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="RAPWI (page does not exist)">RAPWI</a>. On this passage, when the <i>Geneva</i> had to skirt the outside of the Island of Taiwan, then Formosa, because the Formosa Straights had not yet been swept for mines, she struck an even worse typhoon on 9 October 1945, which virtually destroyed the US base at Okinawa. She had a destroyer escort ahead of her, but the 100 ft (30 m) waves meant they only caught sight each other every five or ten minutes. By the grace of God both survived. </p><p>At Hong Kong, she received Chinese troops and equipment, transported them to <a href="/wiki/Chinwangtao" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinwangtao">Chinwangtao</a> 30 October, and returned to Hong Kong to embark more Chinese troops for passage to Qingdao, arriving 14 November. </p><p><i>Geneva</i> departed Qingdao on 23 November, embarked over a thousand homeward-bound veterans at <a href="/wiki/Luzon" title="Luzon">Luzon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, and reached San Francisco 19 December. On 11 January 1946, she began a troop-transport voyage from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor and returned to <a href="/wiki/San_Diego" title="San Diego">San Diego</a> 7 February. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Operation_Crossroads">Operation Crossroads</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Geneva&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Operation Crossroads"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The attack transport returned to Pearl Harbor 2 March for training in the <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaiian</a> area until she departed 17 May to serve in <a href="/wiki/Operation_Crossroads" title="Operation Crossroads">Operation Crossroads</a>, a joint <a href="/wiki/Atomic_bomb" class="mw-redirect" title="Atomic bomb">atomic bomb</a> experiment of the Army and Navy in the <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Islands" title="Marshall Islands">Marshall Islands</a> at <a href="/wiki/Bikini_Atoll" title="Bikini Atoll">Bikini Atoll</a>. More than 200 ships, 150 aircraft, and some 42,000 men were involved in this vast experiment directed by Vice Admiral <a href="/wiki/William_H._P._Blandy" title="William H. P. Blandy">William H. P. Blandy</a>. Seventy-five target ships - American, German, and Japanese - were moored in the target area. </p><p><i>Geneva</i> arrived off Bikini on 30 May 1946 and rode at anchor for a month. Her crew then transferred to <a href="/wiki/USS_Appling" title="USS Appling">USS <i>Appling</i> (APA-58)</a> since <i>Geneva</i> was to be one of the target ships in "Test Able" on the morning of 1 July 1946 when the fourth atomic bomb to be exploded and the first ever detonated over water was to be dropped from a <a href="/wiki/B-29" class="mw-redirect" title="B-29">B-29</a>. The attack transport survived the explosion and the huge column of water and steam that rose to 35,000 feet (11,000 m) and formed a mushroom-shaped cloud. </p><p><i>Geneva</i> was declared free of <a href="/wiki/Radioactivity" class="mw-redirect" title="Radioactivity">radioactivity</a> the following day. She also survived "Test Baker" 25 July. That morning at 0835 an atomic bomb suspended below <a href="/wiki/LSM-60" class="mw-redirect" title="LSM-60">LSM-60</a> was exploded - the first to be detonated under water. <i>Geneva</i> was in normal operation 4 days after that explosion, steaming to <a href="/wiki/Kwajalein" class="mw-redirect" title="Kwajalein">Kwajalein</a> 25 August, then proceeding via Hawaii to San Francisco, where she arrived 5 November. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Decommissioning_and_fate">Decommissioning and fate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Geneva&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Decommissioning and fate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Geneva</i> departed San Francisco on 4 December, touched San Diego and transited the <a href="/wiki/Panama_Canal" title="Panama Canal">Panama Canal</a> for <a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia" title="Norfolk, Virginia">Norfolk, Virginia</a>, where she arrived on the 27th. She was decommissioned at Norfolk 23 January 1947, and her name was struck from the <a href="/wiki/Naval_Vessel_Register" title="Naval Vessel Register">Navy List</a> on 25 February. She was returned to the <a href="/wiki/Maritime_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Maritime Commission">Maritime Commission</a> on 2 April and joined the <a href="/wiki/National_Defense_Reserve_Fleet" title="National Defense Reserve Fleet">National Defense Reserve Fleet</a> at <a href="/wiki/James_River,_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="James River, Virginia">James River, Virginia</a>. </p><p><i>Geneva</i> was transferred to <a href="/wiki/Wilmington,_North_Carolina" title="Wilmington, North Carolina">Wilmington, North Carolina</a>, in July 1955 and sold for scrap by the <a href="/wiki/Maritime_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Maritime Administration">Maritime Administration</a> on 2 November 1966. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Geneva&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Public Domain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/12px-PD-icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/18px-PD-icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/24px-PD-icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="196" data-file-height="196" /></span></span> <i>This article incorporates text from the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a> </i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_American_Naval_Fighting_Ships" title="Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships">Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships</a><i>. 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href="/wiki/USS_Briscoe_(APA-65)" title="USS Briscoe (APA-65)"><i>Briscoe</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Brule_(APA-66)" title="USS Brule (APA-66)"><i>Brule</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Burleson_(APA-67)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Burleson (APA-67)"><i>Burleson</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Butte_(APA-68)" title="USS Butte (APA-68)"><i>Butte</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Carlisle_(APA-69)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Carlisle (APA-69)"><i>Carlisle</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Carteret_(APA-70)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Carteret (APA-70)"><i>Carteret</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Catron_(APA-71)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Catron (APA-71)"><i>Catron</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Clarendon_(APA-72)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Clarendon (APA-72)"><i>Clarendon</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Cleburne_(APA-73)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Cleburne (APA-73)"><i>Cleburne</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Colusa_(APA-74)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Colusa (APA-74)"><i>Colusa</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Cortland_(APA-75)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Cortland (APA-75)"><i>Cortland</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Crenshaw_(APA-76)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Crenshaw (APA-76)"><i>Crenshaw</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Crittenden_(APA-77)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Crittenden (APA-77)"><i>Crittenden</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Cullman_(APA-78)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Cullman (APA-78)"><i>Cullman</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Dawson_(APA-79)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Dawson (APA-79)"><i>Dawson</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Elkhart_(APA-80)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Elkhart (APA-80)"><i>Elkhart</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Fallon_(APA-81)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Fallon (APA-81)"><i>Fallon</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Fergus_(APA-82)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Fergus (APA-82)"><i>Fergus</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Fillmore_(APA-83)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Fillmore (APA-83)"><i>Fillmore</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Garrard_(APA-84)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Garrard (APA-84)"><i>Garrard</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Gasconade_(APA-85)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Gasconade (APA-85)"><i>Gasconade</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Geneva_(APA-86)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Geneva (APA-86)"><i>Geneva</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Niagara_(APA-87)" title="USS Niagara (APA-87)"><i>Niagara</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Presidio_(APA-88)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Presidio (APA-88)"><i>Presidio</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Preceded by: <a href="/wiki/Windsor-class_attack_transport" title="Windsor-class attack transport"><i>Windsor</i> class</a></li> <li>Followed by: <a 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