>From the “Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships,” 

(1969) Vol. 4, p.476

(1981) Vol. 7, p.218.





TODD





	Counties in Kentucky, Minnesota, and South Dakota.  The 

Kentucky county was named for John Todd who--during the 

American Revolution--took part in the capture of Kaskaskia 

and Vincennes under General George Rogers Clark.  He was 

killed in the Battle of Blue Licks on 18 August 1782.  Todd 

was the great-uncle of Mary Todd Lincoln.



	The Minnesota and South Dakota counties were named for 

John Blair Smith Todd, an 1837 graduate of West Point who 

followed a distinguished career in the Army--from the 

Seminole War to the Civil War--with service as a political 

leader in the Dakota territory.  He was governor of the 

territory from 1869 to 1871.  He died at Yankton, S.D., on 

5 January 1872.





AKA-71

Displacement:  13,910 t.

Length:  459’2”

Beam:  63’

Draft:  26’4”

Speed:  16.5 k. (trials)

Armament:  1 5”; 8 40mm

Class:  TOLLAND

Maritime Standard Type:  C2-S-AJ3





		CLASS STATISTICAL SUMMARY





AKA 64-87, 101-108

Length Overall:

	AKA 64-69, 71-87, 101-108:

		459’2”

	AKA 70:

		459’0”

Extreme Beam:  

	AKA 64-87, 101, 102, 104-108:

		63’0”

	AKA 103:

		63’2”

Trail Displacement:  13,910 t.

Limiting Draft:  26’4”

Trial Speed:  16.5 k.

Accommodations:

	AKA 64:

		Officers:   48

		Enlisted:  326

	AKA 65-80:

		Officers:   62

		Enlisted:  333

	AKA 81-87, 101-108:

		Officers:   38

		Enlisted:  387

Cargo Capacity:  

	380,000 cu.ft.

	  5,275 t.

Armament:  

	AKA 64-75, 77-87, 101-108:

		 1 single 5”/38

		 4 twin 40mm

		16 single 20mm

	AKA 76:

		 1 single 5”/38

		 4 twin 40mm

		12 single 20mm

Engines:  General Electric; geared turbine drive

Boilers:

	AKA 64, 77, 78:

		2 Babcock & Wilcox header-type

	AKA 65-71, 74, 75, 79-87:

		Foster-Wheeler header-type

	AKA 101, 102, 104-108:

		Combustion Engineering header-type

	AKA 103:

		Foster-Wheeler 2-drum boiler

Propulsion:

	Propellers:  1

	Shaft Horsepower:  6,000



	TODD (AKA-71) was laid down under Maritime Commission 

contract (MC hull 1400) on 10 August 1944 at Wilmington, 

N.C., by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Corp.; launched on 

10 October 1944; sponsored by Mrs. R. Gregg Cherry; acquired 

by the Navy from the War Shipping Administration on 

14 November; and commissioned on 30 November 1944, Lt. 

Comdr. Charles A. Johnson, USNR, in command.



	The attack cargo ship held shakedown training in the 

Chesapeake Bay and then moved up the coast to Davisville, 

R.I., to load cargo.  On 4 January 1945, TODD began an 

independent voyage to Hawaii.  She transited the Panama 

Canal on 11 January and arrived at Pearl Harbor on the 26th.  

She unloaded her cargo, participated in training exercises 

for two weeks, and got underway for New Caledonia on 

12 February.



	On 22 February, TODD arrived at Noumea to await further 

orders.  During the next 10 weeks, the ship moved only once 

and that was to carry tracked landing vehicles 60 miles up 

the coast to Uarai Bay for the Army.  She left Noumea on 

3 May and proceeded, via Manus, to the Philippines.  The 

cargo ship arrived at Leyte on 16 May and headed for 

Hollandia 12 days later.  She loaded troops and supplies and 

returned to Manila on 17 June.  TODD then made two more 

round-trips from the Philippines to New Guinea.  The ship 

was unloading cargo at Subic Bay when hostilities with Japan 

ceased.  She embarked occupation troops, with their 

equipment, at Manila and got underway for Japan on 

27 August.  The troops disembarked at Yokohama on 

2 September.  A voyage from the Philippines to Okinawa and 

another from the Philippines to Japan followed.  In October 

and early November, she made calls at Hong Kong and Tsingtao 

before proceeding to Sasebo.  TODD embarked elements of the 

5th Marine Division and departed Japan for the United States 

on 7 December.



	The ship arrived at San Diego on 22 December 1945 and 

disembarked her passengers.  She moved to San Pedro the next 

day and off-loaded ammunition.  TODD proceeded to San 

Francisco on 9 January 1946 and entered the Hunters Point 

Naval Shipyard for voyage repairs.  Between 16 February and 

16 March, the attack cargo ship made one last voyage to 

Hawaii.  On 5 April, TODD stood out of San Francisco bound 

for Norfolk and inactivation.  She arrived on 1 May and was 

decommissioned on 25 June 1946.  TODD was returned to the 

War Shipping Administration the next day and was struck from 

the Navy list on 19 July 1946.





Transcribed by Michael Hansen

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