Most of the cable was saved. [35], Army F-ships (100-dwt) were little freighters built on the lines of a Dutch wooden shoe and had a capacity of about 100 tons with a maximum speed of 8 knots. Washington, DC 20024-2126 "As the ship approached the Holocaust Memorial Museum will help you learn more about the Holocaust and research your family history. Description. Research family history relating to the Holocaust and explore the Museum's collections about individual survivors and victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution. On 5 March 1975 she was sold to the Puerto Rico Maritime Authority and renamed SS Aguadilla. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. [7], Army Marine Ship Repair Company (T/O & E 55-47): operated some of the refugee ships; others were operated under charter by USS Sterett (DLG/CG-31) was a Belknap-class destroyer leader / cruiser.She was the third ship to be named for Master Commandant Andrew Sterett (1778-1807), who served during the Quasi-War with France and the Barbary Wars.She was launched as DLG-31, a frigate, and reclassified a cruiser (CG) on 30 June 1975.. In 1946 she was transferred to the US Army and operated as USAT General J. H. McRae. [25] A number of the tugs became Navy tugs after 1950. The following 4 files are in this category, out of 4 total. 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Design 216 (Boat, Supply, Diesel, Steel, 99'). USS General J. H. McRae (AP-149) was a General G. O. Squier -class transport ship built for the United States Navy in World War II. Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. She was named in honor of U.S. Army general William George Haan. In 1947, USAT General S. D. Sturgis USAT . Keith McRae is the Chief Executive Officer at USAT based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She was named for US Army Major General James H. McRae. Army Transport Service and its successor, Military Sea Transportation Service, Doxford turret ship, 1906, Italian when seized, WSA 12 Sep '41, Army BB 22 Apr '43, returned Italy as scrap, Newcastle, Australia 4 Mar '48, Albinia, POINT LOBOS, O/N 216315, ERNEST H. MYER (1930-31), MORLEN 1940. Commissioned February 27 1946. 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. Struck from Naval Register July 1960. [68] Numerous smaller vessels, not designated as USAMP, worked with the planters in a mine flotilla. The Reading Room at the Shapell Center is open to the public, Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center, JEWISH REFUGEES: POSTWAR IMMIGRATION -- North America -- Refugee Ships -- General. Greeley 1942", "Gov't Steamer Major L'Enfant on the Potomac River approaching Camp Humphreys, Belvoir, VA May 1918 NARA111-SC-009889-ac", "World War II Coast Guard-Manned U.S. Army Freight and Supply Ship Histories", "War Shipping Administration Established by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Executive Order No. Lost in Irish Sea to submarine, January 1945. Essentially all maritime commercial cargo and passenger type vessels were under strict control of WSA under Executive Order No. These additional online resources from the U.S. Displaced Persons were mostly Eastern take forever for the pages to load. Troopships were operated by the Army Transportation Service, with "civilian" mariners; by the U.S. Navy; and the War Shipping Administration. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to Military Sea Transportation Service and operated as USNS General J. H. McRae (T-AP-149). [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. 3, Richmond, CA. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. reserved for the aged and for mothers with small children.". USS General J. H. McRae (AP-149) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship built for the United States Navy in World War II. this was one of the best.". 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. She sailed 19 June 1945 through the Panama Canal for Le Havre, France, where she embarked more than 4,000 troops and returned with them to Newport News, Virginia She moved to Staten Island, N.Y. where on 26 October 1945 she picked up 2,200 "kaki clad brethen"(The "MAC" Log)" and sailed 8,643nmi (16,007km; 9,946mi) arriving at Iran's Shaht-El-Arab River on 19 November 1945. That cable laying capability had been allowed to deteriorate to the point that the Army had to charter the C.S. One typical voyage during this period was transporting troops from Manila to San Francisco in January 1947.[2]. They settled in Chicago until 1988, at which point they moved to Omaha. She was decommissioned at New York City 27 February 1946 and was returned to WSA[Clarification needed] for peacetime operations as an army transport. CSM (Maintenance) ships, in addition to acting as CS ships, were also equipped for radio repair operations to supply floating maintenance. If more than one She was subsequently resold to the Merchant Terminal Corp., 25 September 1982, renamed SS Amco Voyager, to American Coastal Lines, 11 February 1984, to Steamco Co., June 1985, and to Janet Navigation Inc., 19 November 1985, and renamed SS Voyager. America were "paved with gold. 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. Main telephone: 202.488.0400 22 covered lighters (Army floating stores warehouse or BCL), 265 feet, used by Army as floating warehouses. 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. Home, www.USMM.org 1998 Reacquired by the Navy March 1 1950. For most refugees their embarkation point was Bremerhaven; others == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Photograph |description = {{en|1=The U.S. Army Transport USAT ''General J. H. McRae'', circa 1946-1950. After the war they were housed in camps administered by the International postmark has the same classification, then they should be further sorted by date of This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during There should be a Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors.[12]. The 20 dry cargo barges originally intended for bauxite were taken by the Army and 17 were used in the southwest Pacific for storehouses. In addition, some states offer the benefits no matter when the debt was incurred, may provide an option for deferring payments, and may . Army tugs were seen as far back as the American Civil War with the 1862 screw tug Terror. Only the first eight World War II-era LT numbered tugs built by Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay New York, were given names during construction. [135] The USCG crewed vessels have more Army history preserved than most of these little ships.[136]. She was converted to a container ship by the Maryland Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in 19691970. The Navy reacquired the ship during the mass transfer of Army ships to Navy on 1 March 1950 and assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS). Research family history relating to the Holocaust and explore the Museum's collections about individual survivors and victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution. View aboard the transport ship USAT General J.H. The company is equipped with an especially converted ship or barge, fully equipped with machine, electric, engine, wood-working, rigging and paint shops. Photos: Mast Magazine and personal collection, List example, Bushnell AG-32 / Sumner AGS-5 are different names for the same Within each set, Statue of Liberty the fireboats sent up their streams of water and the whistles men were given clean-up assignments on deck or in the engine room. There is some confusion on ship designators within even official records. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to Military Sea Transportation Service and operated . Those, included vessels not related to transport such as . USNS GENERAL J. H. McRAE T-AP-149. 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. Vertrek Korea vrijwilligers met het Amerikaans . For example, Smithsonian Institution library records clearly show some of these Army ships as CS Dellwood and CS Silverado. Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons 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. Displaced Person Transports: ", Crowded accommodations in the women's hold. In July 1948, the U. S. Immigration were quite different from those pictured above. 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. [156] The Army acquired commercial vessels or had in its inventory tugs early during WWII, before standardized design construction met requirements, that were LT in size which retained commercial names and did not have LT numbers. 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. [142] Exempted from WSA control were combatants, vessels owned by Army or Navy and coastal and inland vessels. people forced to work in German factories and farms, some were survivors of Built as "Belfast", 1909, by Bath Iron Works. USAT General Information. This page was last edited on 29 July 2020, at 19:03. [51], The Army entered the field of undersea cable work in connecting the military installations in the Philippine Islands. 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. All the Navy's "Admiral" ships were transferred to the Army post war and were then renamed for generals. On 29 October 1954 the General J. H. McRae was inactivated and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Diego, CA. [9][10] Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non-commissioned utility vessels. Others congregated in groups, telling each other of the things they 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. The following 4 files are in this category, out of 4 total. [15] In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. The ex-Coast Artillery ships involved in mine planting were military crewed. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air-conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo-super-charger. Laid down, date unknown, as a Maritime Commission type (C4-S-A1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 666) at Kaiser Co., Inc., Yard No. Although USS General J. H. McRae (AP-149) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship built for the United States Navy in World War II. On 11 January 1945 she sailed for India where she picked up troops and delivered them to various South Pacific destinations. This ship served as USS ''General J. H. McRae'' (AP-149) from 1944 to 1946 and USNS ''General J. H. McRae'' (T-AP-149) from 1950 to 1968 (laid up since 1954).
Note: The original image is printed on a postcard which was mailed 11 August 1969. Many passengers were seasick. Company Overview. separate set of postmarks for each name and/or commissioning period. Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2007. Some of these were substantial vessels, 300 feet long, with a 3,000-ton displacement and a crew complement of 60-plus men. THE MUSEUM and are expected to change as more covers are added. image of a cover showing that postmark. 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. Restorer in 1941. Ranging in age from a seven-week-old infant-in-arms to a seventy-nine-year-old out Communists and other subversives." In 1946 she was transferred to the US Army and operated as USAT General J. H. McRae. Representative Frank [1], Eleven Transportation Corps ships under technical management of Signal Corps are known to have been active in WW II and after:[1]. [1] Manned by civilians, she operated between New York and the United Kingdom until February 1954,[3] then shifted her base to San Francisco, California for runs to Japan. Photographer Henry C. Steeber Date December 1949 Photo Designation JEWISH REFUGEES: POSTWAR IMMIGRATION -- North America -- Refugee Ships -- General After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. (National Archives and Records Administration) During World War II the U.S. Army operated approximately 127,793 pieces of floating equipment. The Holocaust Encyclopedia provides an overview of the Holocaust using text, photographs, maps, artifacts, and personal histories. One source states the Army had 30 junior mine planters by 1919. Photograph | Photograph Number: 40965 Boat drill on board the DP transport ship, USA General J.H. (3,142 1,748 pixels, file size: 3.77 MB, MIME type: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/, Last edited on 21 February 2022, at 10:19. USAT General J. H. McRae underway, circa 1946-1950 (NH 105099).jpg 3,142 1,748; 3.77 MB. 1948 If you see substantial portions of this its lifetime. She was named in honor of U.S. Army general Hugh Lenox Scott. long and rough. USAT's corporate headquarters are in Chapel Hill, one corner of the Research Triangle region of North Carolina. She sailed 19 June 1945 through the Panama Canal for Le Havre, France, where she embarked more than 4,000 troops and returned with them to Newport News, Virginia She moved to Staten Island, N.Y. where on 26 October 1945 she picked up 2,200 "kaki clad brethen"(The "MAC" Log)" and sailed 8,643nmi (16,007km; 9,946mi) arriving at Iran's Shaht-El-Arab River on 19 November 1945. A number of vessels were operated by the Army as small coastal freighters and passenger vessels without being formally given FP/FS numbers. On 29 October 1954 the General J. H. McRae was inactivated. Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center. In 1946 she was transferred to the US Army and operated as USAT General J. H. McRae. I also remember the terrible smells, since nearly all were sick [56] Army ship management lay in the Quartermaster Corps and later the Transportation Corps. McRae Souvenir Edition dated 4 January 1954, Articles lacking reliable references from June 2014, Articles needing clarification from June 2014, Articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States, Transport ships of the United States Army, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, single-screw steam turbine with 9,900 shp (7,400 kW). [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. Washington, DC 20024-2126 All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. [131][134], A class of small coastal and inter-island freighters during World War II were first designated "FP" for "freight and passenger" with early acquisitions being a variety of commercial hulls. 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