USS Cread (APD-88)
# USS Cread (APD-88)

USS Cread (APD-88) was a Crosley-class high speed transport that served in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946. She was sold for scrapping in 1961.

## Namesake

Walter Irving Cread was born on 18 November 1923 in Los Angeles, California. He enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve 18 August 1941. He was rated fireman third class 18 October 1941 and assigned to duty on USS Hornet. As fireman second class, Cread was killed in action 12 December 1942 while attached to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Two.

## History

USS Cread was laid down as Rudderow-class destroyer escort "DE-227" on 16 October 1943 at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and launched on 12 February 1944. She was converted to a Crosley-class high speed transport before her construction was complete, and commissioned on 29 July 1945.

### Decommissioning and fate

The war ended before her training was complete and she was decommissioned on 15 March 1946, and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Green Cove Springs, Florida. She was stricken from the Naval Register on 1 June 1960, and sold for scrapping to the Southern Scrap Metal Company on 16 March 1961.

## Sources

* NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive - DE-227 / APD-88 Cread
* This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

vte Crosley-class high speed transports :

Crosley

Cread

Ruchamkin

Kirwin

Kinzer

Register

Brock

John Q. Roberts

William M. Hobby

Ray K. Edwards

Arthur L. Bristol

Truxtun

Upham

Ringness

Knudson

Rednour

Tollberg

William J. Pattison

Myers

Walter B. Cobb

Earle B. Hall

Harry L. Corl

Belet

Julius A. Raven

Walsh

Hunter Marshall

Earheart

Walter S. Gorka

Rogers Blood

Francovich

Joseph M. Auman

Don O. Woods

Beverly W. Reid

Kline

Raymon W. Herndon

Scribner

Alex Diachenko / Diachenko

Horace A. Bass

Wantuck

Gosselin

Begor

Cavallaro

Donald W. Wolf

Cook

Walter X. Young

Balduck

Burdo

Kleinsmith

Weiss

Carpellotti

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Bray :

XPlanned conversion to high speed transport cancelled :

Preceded by: Charles Lawrence class

Followed by: None :

List of United States Navy amphibious warfare ships :

vte Rudderow-class destroyer escorts :

Preceded by: Edsall class

Followed by: John C. Butler class :

List of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy :

