High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS George F. Elliott (AP-105) was a troop transport that served with the United States Navy during World War II. She was the second US Navy ship to bear the name (the first being the transport AP-13, which was lost to enemy action in August 1942). AP-105, a Maritime Commission (CP-3) type was built as SS Delbrasil in 1939 by Bethlehem Steel at Sparrows Point, Maryland, and delivered to the Mississippi Shipping Company on 31 May 1940.[1] On 25 August 1943 she was acquired by the Navy, renamed USS George F. Elliott (AP-105), and commissioned 23 September 1943, Commander A. J. Couble in command.