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    USS J. Franklin Bell
    USS J. Franklin Bell (APA-16) was a Harris-class attack transport ship. She was built in 1921 and spent 20 years in merchant service as a passenger and...
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  • USS Bell
    was a Fletcher-class destroyer from 1943 to 1946. USS Belle USS Jacob Bell USS J. Franklin Bell  This article incorporates text from the public domain...
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  • List of U.S. military vessels named after presidents
    McKinley See also: SS President McKinley, later commissioned as USS J. Franklin Bell (APA-16) William Howard Taft Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge Herbert...
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    List of United States Navy ships: I–K (redirect from List of United States Navy ships, J)
    (1859) USS J. Douglas Blackwood (DE-219) USS J. Franklin Bell (AP-34/APA-16) USS J. Fred Talbott (DD-156/AG-81) USS J. J. Crittenden (1862) USS J. M. Guffey...
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    List of United States Navy amphibious warfare ships
    ex-AP-25 USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13), ex-AP-26 USS Hunter Liggett (APA-14), ex-AP-27 USS Henry T. Allen (APA-15), ex-AP-30. later AG-90 USS J. Franklin Bell (APA-16)...
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  • SS Keystone State
    acquired by the United States Navy during World War II and renamed USS J. Franklin Bell and used as a troopship. The vessel was sold for scrap in 1948. SS Keystone...
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    List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy
    USS APc-1 USS APc-2 USS APc-3 USS APc-4 USS APc-5 USS APc-6 USS APc-7 USS APc-8 USS APc-9 USS APc-10 USS APc-11 USS APc-12 USS APc-13 USS APc-14 USS APc-15...
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    Leslie E. Gehres (section C.O. of USS Franklin)
    Imperial Japan. On 7 November 1944, Gehres took command of USS Franklin, relieving Captain J. M. Shoemaker at the change of command ceremony, where Gehres...
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    April 29, 1945, seventeen days after Roosevelt's death, the carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt was launched and served from 1945 to 1977. London's Westminster...
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    USS Indianapolis (CA-35)
    USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was a Portland-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy, named for the city of Indianapolis, Indiana. Launched in 1931,...
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