High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176) was a troop transport that served with the United States Navy in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. In October 1949 she was redesignated T-AP-176 but retained her Navy crew. USS General J. C. Breckinridge, a General John Pope class troop transport, was built under Maritime Commission contract by the Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Company at Kearny, New Jersey. She was commissioned with a U.S. Coast Guard crew in June 1945 and was en route to Marseilles, France, on her first operational voyage when the Japanese surrender ended World War II.