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USS
General Harry Taylor was a G.O Squier
class transport ship laid down by Kaiser Shipbuilding
Company in Richmond, and was launched in October 1943 for
the US Navy. She was extensively used as a troop transport
in the Pacific during world war two, and was stricken from
the US Navy lists in 1958. She was transferred to the US
Air force and assigned as a rocket and instrumentation
ship in 1961 and was renamed General
Hoyt S Vandenberg. She served in the air
force until 1983 and was then laid up. She was
deliberately scuttled as an
artificial reef 1,5 nautical miles south of Key
West in Florida 27. May 2009 . The wreck rest today on her
keel as a classic Donald Duck wreck on a depth of 15 to 45
meter.
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| 24° 27' N 81° 44' W ( Source: Navy Memoryshop ) 
Picture: USNS General Hoyt S Vandenberg Courtesy of US Navy, Public domain |
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