The U.S. Navy transport ship USS <i>General Hugh J. Gaffey</i> (IX-507) moored at quay F5 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (USA). Formerly the transport AP-121, the ship had been commissioned as USS <i>Admiral W.L. Capps</i> (AP-121), an <i>Admiral W.S. Benson</i>-class transport, in 1944. She was decommssioned in 1946 and recommissioned in 1950. The ship was originally transferred to the U.S. Army and had been renamed USAT <i>General Hugh J. Gaffey</i>. Retaining her Army name, the transport was not re-commissioned, but instead was assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service as USNS <i>General Hugh J. Gaffey</i> (T-AP-121) until being decommissioned again in 1969. <i>General Hugh J. Gaffey</i> was placed in service in November 1978 at Bremerton, Washington, to serve as a barracks ship for the crews of ships undergoing major overhaul. She was struck from the Naval Register in 1993 and sunk during exercise RIMPAC 2000 as a missile target on 16 June 2000 (location: 023° 35' 01.0" North, 159° 50' 00.2" West).
Don S. Montgomery, USN
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