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USNS Geiger (T-AP-197)/USTS Bay State IV was a transport ship in the United States Navy. She was named after General Roy Geiger , who, from July 1945 to November 1946, commanded Marine Force, Pacific Fleet .
USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176) was a troopship that served with the United States Navy in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. In October 1949 she was redesignated T-AP-176 but retained her Navy crew. Her namesake was United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General James Carson Breckinridge (1877-1942), who was the grandson ...
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Five were retained by the Navy and were transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service in October 1949 to be manned by civilian crews, and two others were transferred to American President Lines with the intent of being converted to a passenger liners, but ended up being chartered troop ships that in the Korean War were rejoined to ...
Military Sealift Command ships as of January 2022 [1]. This is a list of Military Sealift Command ships.The fleet includes about 130 ships in eight programs: Fleet Oiler (PM1), Special Mission (PM2), Strategic Sealift (PM3), Tow, Salvage, Tender, and Hospital Ship (PM4), Sealift (PM5), Combat Logistics Force (PM6), Expeditionary Mobile Base, Amphibious Command Ship, and Cable Layer (PM7) and ...
USNS Geiger; P. SS President Adams; SS President Cleveland (1947) SS President Jackson (1950) SS President Wilson This page was last edited on 25 June 2009, at 16:23 ...
She was laid down as the SS President Jackson, a cargo / passenger liner and finished as a troop transport, the USNS Barrett (T-AP-196). [1] There were three ships in the class with the Barrett (T-AP-196) having sister ships named USNS Geiger (T-AP-197) and USNS Upshur (T-AP-198). All three ships would later become training ships [2]:
Kaiser's C4 troop ship construction became Navy troop ships ("General" names), Sun's became WSA troopships operated by commercial agents. [4] In the 1960 the Navy sold off most of the General ships to private companies. Most were scrapped in the 1980s. USS General G. O. Squier (AP-130) USS General T. H. Bliss (AP-131)