Dates: 1943 - 1973
Authorized under the Lend-Lease Act as British Mechanized Artillery Transport BAPM-3
Reclassified Landing Ship Dock LSD-11, 1 July 1942
Contract awarded for LSD-11 to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA., 10 September 1942.
LSD-11 was laid down, 24 May 1943, as HMS Cutlass at Newport New Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, VA.
Launched: 18 November 1943
LSD-11 never saw active service in the US Navy
Transferred to the United Kingdom, 15 February 1944 .Commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Northway (F-142).
HMS Northway, Temp LCDR A. J. Anderson RNR in command, loaded in the Solent and
departed her anchorage 5/a13 at 0040 hours on the morning of 6 June 1944... arrived JUNO SECTOR at 17.55 hours the same day to discharge a cargo of 46 loaded DUKWs. She was part of FORCE J4 sailing in Convoy L1 Follow-up. Departed 1940 hours same day.
Returned to US Maritime Commission custody, date unknown
Sold to Atlas Metals Corp., 19 March 1946, for resale. Converted to a ferry, renamed SS City of Havana, flag unknown
SS City of Havana provided service between Key West, FL, and Havana, Cuba, until 1959
Laid up at Jacksonville, FL in 1959
Sold to the West German Navy in 1962 and laid up at Bremerhaven, Germany
Used as a accommodation ship by the German Navy from circa 1964 to 1967, at Bremerhaven, Germany
Sold by the German government to Atlantic Steam Navigation Company London (Transport Ferry Service) in 1967 , renamed SS Celtic Ferry
Converted to a Ro/Ro Ferry by Palmers Shipbuilders Heburn-on-Tyne for use on the Felixstowe Antwerp/Rotterdam Service until 1972
Sold in 1973, presumed scrapped .
