Overview and identity
USS Beverly W. Reid is documented as an ship in the Crosley-class high-speed-transport roster.
USS Beverly W. Reid is identified through hull or pennant designation APD-119, service with United States Navy, and membership in Crosley class. Its history belongs to the Second World War and to the wider development of amphibious warfare. These identity checks separate the vessel from other ships that may have carried the same or a similar name.
Construction and class context
USS Beverly W. Reid was built at a builder not identified in the reviewed record. The documented chronology records construction dates not yet confirmed in the reviewed record. These dates place the vessel within the construction sequence of Crosley class and provide fixed points for distinguishing original features from later alterations.
The Crosley class applied the Rudderow destroyer-escort design to the high-speed-transport mission, trading the DE combat fit for troop, boat, and amphibious-support capacity. Fifty hulls from the Rudderow construction program were completed directly as APDs, while USS Bray entered service as a destroyer escort before later conversion to APD-139. Two additional APD assignments were cancelled. the reviewed sources document Bray once and attaches both Rudderow and Crosley memberships to that the same ship. This class-level history explains the common requirement and design; the present article remains focused on evidence that can be attached specifically to USS Beverly W. Reid.
Service history
The reviewed ship record does not yet provide a detailed operational chronology for USS Beverly W. Reid. The page therefore preserves the confirmed construction, identity, class, and disposition evidence without assigning the ship operations documented only for another member of the class.
The operating context of Crosley class included troop transport, amphibious support, and underwater demolition team support. That context explains why the ship was built, but it is not treated as proof that USS Beverly W. Reid participated in an undocumented deployment or action. Ship-specific operations require dated orders, logs, official histories, or equivalent evidence.
Configuration and change
As a member of Crosley class, USS Beverly W. Reid shared a design baseline associated with high-speed transport and features such as high speed transport, destroyer escort conversion, rudderow design, and world war ii. The baseline is useful for understanding the vessel’s intended capabilities, but it does not establish that every weapon, sensor, boat, aircraft, or machinery arrangement remained aboard throughout the ship’s career.
Any dated configuration for USS Beverly W. Reid must distinguish original construction from later refits, wartime additions, repair work, transfers, and changes in mission. Where the reviewed evidence provides only class-level data, this profile presents it as context and avoids converting it into a permanent ship-specific specification.
Later service and disposition
The later service and final disposition of USS Beverly W. Reid have not been confirmed in the sources reviewed.
No preservation status is established for USS Beverly W. Reid in the reviewed record. Reserve service, transfer, renaming, disposal, loss, or museum preservation should be added only when a subject-specific source establishes it.
Historical significance and evidence
USS Beverly W. Reid provides an individual case within the history of Crosley class. Its value lies in connecting one documented hull, construction chronology, service identity, and outcome to the broader design and operational history of the class.
The class captures the late-war shift from convoy escort production toward specialized fast amphibious support using an established escort hull. For USS Beverly W. Reid, historical significance should remain ship-specific: the article must show what this vessel did, how it changed, and how its career differed from other members of Crosley class, rather than repeating the class article as if every ship shared one service history.
The evidence used for USS Beverly W. Reid includes Naval History and Heritage Command, Rudderow-class destroyer escorts, Destroyer History Foundation, Destroyer escort-transports (APD) in World War II, and Destroyer History Foundation, Rudderow-class destroyer escorts in World War II. These sources support the chronology and identification presented here; where they do not establish a ship-specific event or configuration, the profile says so rather than borrowing details from another vessel.
Class relationship
This ship is recorded as a member of Crosley class. Shared design history belongs on the class page; this page concentrates on the individual hull where evidence is available.
Sources and further reading
- Rudderow-class destroyer escorts ↗Naval History and Heritage Command · accessed 2026-09-19
- Destroyer escort-transports (APD) in World War II ↗Destroyer History Foundation · accessed 2026-09-19
- Rudderow-class destroyer escorts in World War II ↗Destroyer History Foundation · accessed 2026-09-19
- High-speed Transport (APD) / Amphibious Transport, Small (LPR) Photo Index ↗NavSource Naval History · accessed 2026-09-19