he came to the United States as a Displaced Person (D.P. She was named in honor of U.S. Army general Henry Blanchard Freeman. [5][6], Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. A number of vessels were operated by the Army as small coastal freighters and passenger vessels without being formally given FP/FS numbers. families together. In 1946 she was transferred to the US Army and operated as USAT General J. H. McRae. Federal SCRA benefits apply to debt incurred before qualifying military service. [1] The ship was commissioned USS General J. H. McRae (AP-149) on 8 August 1944 at Richmond, California. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non-commissioned ships designated as U.S. USS General J. H. McRae (AP-149) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship built for the United States Maritime Commission during World War II. flags fluttered from bow to stern; while amidship were eleven foreign flags, [18], Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Grover: grounded twice in 1943. Find contact information for USAT. Only fifteen of the larger wooden vessels, Design 342 (Vessel, Passenger-Cargo, Diesel, Wood, 148'), were built to serve largely in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Holocaust Memorial Museum will help you learn more about the Holocaust and research your family history. harbor on an Easter Sunday. After the war came the reorganization that led to the U.S. Department of Defense rather than a separate United States Department of War and Department of the Navy with the decision on maritime logistics going in favor of it being administered by the Navy. Digital photographs[11] of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. On 11 January 1945 she sailed for India where she picked up troops and delivered them to various South Pacific destinations. Struck from Naval Register July 1960. Ranging in age from a seven-week-old infant-in-arms to a seventy-nine-year-old The following 4 files are in this category, out of 4 total. [I guess I passed the test.]. They settled in Chicago until 1988, at which point they moved to Omaha. during a fierce North Atlantic storm that extended our planned 10-day voyage All the ships were managed and crewed by Army Engineers organized into Engineer Port Repair Ship Crew units, named for Army Engineers killed in action during WW II and heavily modified from their original design. range for covers on that page. The ship was crewed by the U.S. Coast Guard until decommissioning. These C-4 Maritime Commission ships were built to transport Army purchase 31 March 1942, inter-island transport Hawaiian Islands, wrecked February 18, 1947. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to Military Sea Transportation Service and operated as USNS General J. H. McRae (T-AP-149). The Reading Room at the Shapell Center is open to the public, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center, JEWISH REFUGEES: POSTWAR IMMIGRATION -- North America -- Refugee Ships -- General McCrae. Women were assigned to help in the kitchen; were quite different from those pictured above. A large number of highly varied commercial tugs were taken into Army service above those constructed to Army designs and Army tugs of prewar design dating to the early 1900s. General J. H. McRae was launched 26 April 1944 by the Kaiser Co., Kaiser Shipyards, Yard 3, Richmond, California, completed 16 June 1944 and delivered to the Maritime Commission for assignment on a loan basis by the War Shipping Administration to the United States Navy on the same day. Upon completion on 12 March 1970 she began hauling containerized cargo for Seatrain Lines. Note: The newer, large transports of WW II named for generals were the P2-S2-R2 variant of the P2 transport design, not an indicator of service affiliation. Others congregated in groups, telling each other of the things they of Troopships of World War II Title: USAT General J.H. In 1946 she was transferred to the US Army and operated as USAT General J. H. McRae. the postmarks should be listed in order of their classification type. McRae." Photographer Henry C. Steeber Date This page was last edited on 29 July 2020, at 19:03. . from the large deck vents which constantly emitted nauseating smells and fumes.". 10 free leads on us . since I too came to the United States as a Displaced Person in 1949. . There should be a separate set of pages for each name of the ship (for USAT General Information. 's to sift [15] In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. existing example. This is a mobile maintenance and repair unit capable of traveling from installation to installation in a theater to perform third and minor fourth echelon maintenance and repairs to small boats, harbor craft, floating equipment, and in some cases repairs to larger vessels. "Although about half the bunks "Cargo of Hopes," John K. Tennant, The Mast Magazine, December This page was last edited on 1 November 2015, at 01:18. Many of the Army vessels were transferred to Navy with the transport types becoming components of the new Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS, now MSC) under the Navy. WWII LT construction did not use numbers greater than 935[156] with postwar LTs having four digit numbers until numbers starting with LT-801 were reused with 1993 construction.[157]. 210, 150 Foot Steel Diesel Retrieving Vessel", sometimes termed "Aircraft Retrieving Vessel" in later references. Read More. General J. H. McRae was launched 26 April 1944 by the Kaiser Co., Kaiser Shipyards, Yard 3, Richmond, California. USS General M. L. Hersey (AP-148) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship of the U.S. Navy in World War II.She was named in honor of U.S. Army general Mark Leslie Hersey.She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General M. L. Hersey in 1946. During World War I they were often used to transport troops from training camps to embarkation piers, particularly at the New York Port of Embarkation. On 16 July 1968 title was transferred to Hudson Waterways Corp./McRae Shipping Corp. under the MARAD exchange program, and the ship was renamed SS Transhawaii, USCG ON 515621, IMO 6904820. She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General W. G. Haan in 1946. [51][56], The nature of the work is such that specialized crews are required to operate the cable machinery and perform the actual cable splicing and technical work. Those, included vessels not related to transport such as mine vessels and waterway or port maintenance ships and other service craft. Some of these were substantial vessels, 300 feet long, with a 3,000-ton displacement and a crew complement of 60-plus men. to Watson B. Miller, Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, "A == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Photograph |description = {{en|1=The U.S. Army Transport USAT ''General J. H. McRae'', circa 1946-1950. had heard of the land that was now only a few days away. [1] Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters and time charters. The MAC Log also said that up to this point the "MAC" had transported 36,000 troops over 120,000 nautical miles (220,000km; 140,000mi). Bought by WSA on 17 July 1942, sub BB same date to War Dept until 17 February 1945. [22], See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard-Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History"[23] for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). [52] The Army Signal Corps used a number of cable ships for that work including Burnside, Romulus, Liscum, Dellwood and two vessels intimately associated with the Coast Artillery Corps controlled mine work at the coastal fortifications; Cyrus W. Field and Joseph Henry. Sold for commercial service in 1968. The ships provided mobile depot support for B-29 Superfortress and P-51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. DANFS - Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Permitting Policy and Resource Management, The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks: 20 Years Later, "Ex Scientia Tridens": The U.S. Army use as tug, 428 tons, 147' length, built Neafie & Levy 1897 as "Plymouth" to USCG as "Iris" 18991934, sold 21 June 1934 as "Plymouth", later "Big Chief" 1938, service with both the Army and Navy during World War II, "B. O. Colonna" 1956, scrapped 1973, United States Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command, Mine Planters & Associated Ships 1904-1909, "U.S. Army Coastal Freighters (F, FS) Built During WWII", List of World War II vessel types of the United States, "The U.S. Army's San Francisco Port of Embarkation in World War II", "USAT Fred C. Ainsworth (Transport, 1943-1950)", "Chapter 4: "Help on the Way". Photos: Mast Magazine and personal collection, List She was scrapped in Taiwan in 1987. D. Kahn, "Concrete Ship and Barge Program, 1941-1944"Ships for victory: a history of shipbuilding under the U.S. Maritime Commission in World War II[28], The Army had its own program for small boat construction and directly procured vessels and water craft that were under 200 feet or under 1,000 gross tons. Part 2. image of a cover showing that postmark. Harry Steeber sailed to New York aboard this ship. This fleet and the Army's Ports of Embarkation[2][3][4] operated throughout the war's massive logistics in support of the worldwide operations. During 1944 she sailed from West Coast ports carrying troops to Honolulu, Hawaii and other Pacific Theater destinations. Original file (3,142 1,748 pixels, file size: 3.77 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg), https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse. USAT Corp is one of a small handful of companies in America to have achieved a 5G for Enterprise Branch Specialization from Cradlepoint - allowing us Liked by Keith McRae Retailers are. ", My parents heard the streets in Four were sent to the ETO and last one, Hains, was sent to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO), along with the cutter dredge 'Raymond', additionally four new Hains-class armed dredges were constructed for use in the PTO. He was awarded Silver Stars for gallantry in the Spanish-American War and in the Philippine Instruction; and received the Distinguished Service Medal as Commander of the 78th Division in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of World War I. CSN (News) ships were used by civilian reporters. "Among them, the largest group Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. In 1947, USAT General S. D. Sturgis On 5 March 1975 she was sold to the Puerto Rico Maritime Authority and renamed SS Aguadilla. Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center. was also on hand.". The Holocaust Encyclopedia provides an overview of the Holocaust using text, photographs, maps, artifacts, and personal histories. Statue of Liberty the fireboats sent up their streams of water and the whistles 1948 All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. As a result, the Army lost almost all of its big vessels. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. [44][45][46], The Army had a history of submarine cable work by the time of World War II operations, dating back to the 1899-1900 period. Photographer Henry C. Steeber Date December 1949 Photo Designation JEWISH REFUGEES: POSTWAR IMMIGRATION -- North America -- Refugee Ships -- General Keith received a Bachelor of Science degree from Georgetown University. In 1952, he settled in Chicago, Illinois, and began using In 1952, he settled in Chicago, Illinois, and began using These vessels were primarily used as supply ships, that could retrieve aircraft if needed. Served in this Transport Boat? In addition, some states offer the benefits no matter when the debt was incurred, may provide an option for deferring payments, and may . General J. H. McRae was launched 26 April 1944 by the Kaiser Co., Kaiser Shipyards, Yard 3, Richmond, California, completed 16 June 1944 and delivered to the Maritime Commission for assignment on a loan basis by the War Shipping Administration to the United States Navy on the same day. >>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the 's and 17,000 orphans would be permitted River towards the sea, the passengers gradually fell silent. Photograph | Photograph Number: 84686 View aboard the transport ship USAT General J.H. in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where they could become farmers or factory workers. Maryland Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_General_J._H._McRae&oldid=1149033370, Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States, Transport ships of the United States Army, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. where beautiful actresses wore strapless dress and gowns. Boat drill on board the DP transport ship, USA General J.H. General J. H. McRae. Boat drill on board of USAT Gen. J.H. long and rough. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to Military Sea Transportation Service and operated as USNS General J. H. McRae (T-AP-149). [51], The Army entered the field of undersea cable work in connecting the military installations in the Philippine Islands. they were leaving their mother continent, probably never to return again. In 1947, USAT General S. D. Sturgis was the first American troopship to carry European refugees to their new homes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where they could become farmers or factory workers. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. McRae (T-AP-149) in 1950. Many passengers were seasick. As with other cable work, some vessels were chartered. In the South West Pacific Area during the emergency of the Japanese advance throughout Southeast Asia the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines even the chartering arrangements were often vague as ships arriving in Australia were retained by United States Forces in Australia (USFIA) for operations in Australia. Design 225 (Boat, Supply, Ice-Breaker, Diesel, Steel, 102'), Three design number 225 vessels were built by Equitable Equipment Company in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1942, they most likely operated in Alaska or in Greenland waters. at 6 years of age I was too young to form strong opinions about the cuisine, All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. 's stood there on deck watching their Reacquired 1 March 1950 and assigned to MSTS. All the Navy's "Admiral" ships were transferred to the Army post war and were then renamed for generals. Seven cargo vessels were converted to spare parts depot ships to facilitate the maintenance of military equipment in oversea areas. She was decommissioned at New York City 27 February 1946 and was returned to War Shipping Administration (WSA) for peacetime operations as a United States Army Transport (USAT) under bareboat charter until title was transferred on 30 August 1946. The ex-Coast Artillery ships involved in mine planting were military crewed. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to Military Sea Transportation Service and operated as USNS General J. H. McRae (T-AP-149). World War II era tugs came in two general classifications, though those were not rigid and variances may particularly be seen in commercial vessels taken in early during the war. as only New York can welcome As the ship moved in toward the dock, her http://www.navalcovermuseum.org/w/index.php?title=GENERAL_J_H_McRAE_T-AP_149&oldid=142743. A transformational leader with a remarkable record of achievement, General Stanley A. McChrystal was called "one of America's greatest warriors" by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. If you see substantial portions of this The family was sponsored for U.S. citizenship and sailed on the USAT General McRae on September 3, 1949. Built as "Belfast", 1909, by Bath Iron Works. All three terms are found in official usage. 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