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Photo # NH 97122:  USS Noble underway off San Diego, Calif., 4 Dec. 1956

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Noble (APA-218), 1944-1964

USS Noble, a 10,500-ton Haskell class attack transport, was built at Richmond, California, for the U.S. Maritime Commission. She was acquired by the Navy in October 1944 and commissioned at that time. In early 1945, she was sent to the Western Pacific, where she participated in the Okinawa campaign during the spring. Following Japan's capitulation in August 1945, Noble helped repatriate allied prisoners of war and transported U.S. servicemen back to the United States. She remained active through the later 1940s, serving with the Atlantic Fleet from 1946 to 1949, then shifting to the Pacific.

In August 1950, after the outbreak of the Korean War, Noble steamed to the war zone and took part in the Inchon invasion the next month. The ship continued her activities in the Korean area through the end of the conflict in mid-1953. During the remainder of the 1950s and into the 1960s, Noble operated with the Pacific fleet, making periodic deployments to the Far East. The Cuban missile crisis in October 1962 brought her back to the Atlantic area briefly, after which she returned to the West Coast. She made one more Western Pacific deployment in 1963. USS Noble decommissioned in July 1964 and was transferred to Spain in the following December. Renamed Aragon, she served in the Spanish Navy until 1980.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS Noble (APA-218).


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Photo #: NH 66832

USS Noble
(APA-218)

Anchored off New York City, 25 May 1946, with YW-107 alongside.

Courtesy of the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia. Ted Stone Collection.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 97121

USS Noble (APA-218)


Off San Diego, California, circa the later 1940s or early 1950s.
This photograph was received by the Naval Photographic Center in September 1959.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 125KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 97122

USS Noble (APA-218)


Underway off San Diego, California, 4 December 1956.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 75746-KN (Color)

USS Noble (APA-218)

Wall plaque featuring the ship's insignia.
This plaque was received in 1965, shortly after Noble was transferred to the Spanish Navy.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 98KB; 565 x 675 pixels

 


The following images show landing craft from USS Noble:

Photo #: NH 70244

Operation "Miki", 1949


Officers observe Marines landing on Pokai Beach, Waianae, Oahu, on 25-26 October 1949. Nearest LCVPs are from USS Noble (APA-218).
Photographed by Ted Huggins.

Courtesy of Ted Huggins, 1970.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 112KB; 740 x 455 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 70250

Operation "Miki", 1949


Broached landing craft, following landings on Pokai Beach, Waianae, Oahu, 25-26 October 1949.
Children are playing by a USS Noble (APA-218) LCM in the foreground. LCVP in the middle distance is from USS Bexar (APA-237).
Photographed by Ted Huggins.

Courtesy of Ted Huggins, 1970.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 455 pixels

 
Photo #: 80-G-420005

Inchon Invasion, September 1950


LCVPs from USS Noble (APA-218) wait their turn to go up to the Inchon pontoon docks to unload troops and supplies, on the first day of the landings, 15 September 1950.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 605 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 


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Page made 20 November 1999
New image added 27 November 2003