USS Arlington (AP-174)
USS Arlington (AP-174), (former SS Fred Morris), was a Type C1-B Cape Johnson-class transport ship built during World War II. The ship is named after a county in Virginia. Construction and commissioning The ship was laid down on 11 Many 1942 and launched on 10 August 1942 at the Consolidated Steel Shipyard, Wilmington, California. She was delivered to be used by Lykes Brothers Steamship Company as SS Fred Morris in the same year. On 13 December 1943, War Shipping Administration (WSA) acquired the ship for conversion at the Todd Shipbuilding & Drydock Company to a Navy transport. Later on 31 January 1944, she was renamed Arlington and re-designated as AP-174. It was not until the United States Navy acquired Arlington at the New York Navy Yard on 17 April and commissioned her on the next day. On 23 May 1944, she was painted with Measure 32/8T. Following shakedown training in Chesapeake Bay, Arlington loaded cargo and embarked passengers (sailors and marines), and departed Norfolk on 22 May 1944, in company with the USS Eversole (DE-404), bound for Panama. Transiting the Canal Zone on 28–29 May, the transport reached Pearl Harbor on 13 June. Embarking a capacity lift of casualties and