High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Kephart (DE-207/APD-61) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort in the United States Navy. She was named in honor of naval aviator Lieutenant William P. Kephart (1915–1942). Kephart was launched on 6 September 1943 at the Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, South Carolina, sponsored by Mrs. A. P. Kephart, Lt. Kephart's mother, and commissioned on 7 January 1944, with Lieutenant Commander I. H. Cammarn in command. After shakedown off Bermuda, Kephart departed New York on 23 March for convoy escort duty in the Atlantic. During the next three months, she made three runs from New York to Gibraltar and Bizerte, Tunisia. Returning to New York on 30 June for conversion to a Charles Lawrence-class high speed transport, she was reclassified APD-61 on 5 July.

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