USS Joseph Hewes (AP-50)

Name: USS Joseph Hewes (AP-50)
Address: MA

1930 shipsMaritime incidents in November 1942Passenger ships of the United StatesShips built by New York Shipbuilding CorporationShips sunk by German submarines in World War II ... and 3 more

Transports of the United States NavyWorld War II auxiliary ships of the United StatesWorld War II passenger ships of the United States

USS Joseph Hewes (AP-50/APA-22), formerly SS Excalibur, was a troop transport for the United States Navy during World War II commanded by Captain Robert McLanhan Smith Jr. A part of the Center Attack Group of Admiral Hewitt's Western Naval Task Force, Operation Torch, Joseph Hewes was sunk on November 11, 1942 by the German submarine U-173 in Fedala Roads off French Morocco coast during the Naval Battle of Casablanca.

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