High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS DuPage (AP-86/APA-41) was a Bayfield-class attack transport built for the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was named for DuPage County, Illinois. DuPage was launched on 19 December 1942 as Sea Hound (AP-86) by Ingalls Shipbuilding Co., Pascagoula, Mississippi, under a Maritime Commission contract; sponsored by Mrs. Leigh R. Sanford; reclassified APA-41 on 1 February 1943; placed in ferry commission on 28 February 1943, Commander C. Allen in command; decommissioned on 17 March 1943 for conversion by Todd-Erie Basin Dry Docks, Brooklyn, N.Y.; and recommissioned on 1 September 1943, Captain G. M. Wauchope, USNR, in command.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS DuPage (AP-86/APA-41) was a Bayfield-class attack transport built for the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was named for DuPage County, Illinois. DuPage was launched on 19 December 1942 as Sea Hound (AP-86) by Ingalls Shipbuilding Co., Pascagoula, Mississippi, under a Maritime Commission contract; sponsored by Mrs. Leigh R. Sanford; reclassified APA-41 on 1 February 1943; placed in ferry commission on 28 February 1943, Commander C. Allen in command; decommissioned on 17 March 1943 for conversion by Todd-Erie Basin Dry Docks, Brooklyn, N.Y.; and recommissioned on 1 September 1943, Captain G. M. Wauchope, USNR, in command.
