GENERAL C. C. BALLOU 

AP    157

 

BUILT:  1945  BEAM:  71'-6"  DRAFT:  24' 
LENGTH:  522'-10"   CARGO [cu ft]:  31,000   PASS [troop ship]:  3142  
PROPULSION: Turbine   RADIUS [miles]: 15,000 TONS:  13,000
TYPE:   C4 SPEED [knots]:  17 DEPENDENTS / JAPAN:  ?

Named in honor  Major General Charles Clarendon Ballou, USMA 1886, who served in the Philippines in the Spanish-American War and with the AEF in WW I.

Ref:  http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22157.htm

 

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