Given the question: USS Samuel Gompers (AD-37) was a destroyer tender the first of her class and designed to be a floating repair shop for ships of the U.S. Navy either in port or at sea. It was named for Samuel Gompers a distinguished American labor leader during the late nineteenth century.Samuel Gompers was laid down on 9 July 1964 by the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Bremerton Washington; launched on 14 May 1966; sponsored by Mrs. Joseph Holmes; and commissioned on 1 July 1967 Capt. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Mean Of Transportation