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This fleet and the Army's Ports of Embarkation [2] [3] [4] operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. 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.
Watson-class vehicle cargo ship – 8 active; Bob Hope-class vehicle cargo ship – 7 active; Shughart-class vehicle cargo ship – 3 active; Gordon-class vehicle cargo ship – 2 active; Supply-class fast combat support ship – 2 active; Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship – 14 active; Henry J. Kaiser-class replenishment oiler – 15 active
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Design 1133 ships of the United States Army (1 P) G. General Frank S. Besson-class support vessels (10 P) T. Type C3-S1-A3 ships (1 C)
The Runnymede-class large landing craft are powered watercraft in the United States Army. They replaced older USN-design landing craft, and are a typical Landing Craft Utility design with a bow ramp and large aft superstructure. They transport rolling and tracked vehicles, containers, and outsized and general cargo from ships offshore to shore ...
Named in honor of Gen. Frank S. Besson Jr., former Chief of Transportation, U.S. Army, these ships have bow and stern ramps and the ability to beach themselves, giving them the ability to discharge 816 tonnes of vehicles and cargo over the shore in as little as 1.2 m of water, or 1,814 tonnes as an intra-theater line haul roll-on/roll-off cargo ship. [2]
Tassie III (S-77) of the Small Ships Section, United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOSSWPA) at a hideout at Mubo Salamaua Area, Morobe, New Guinea 1943. As there was a need for a fleet of shallow-draft vessels that could navigate among coral reefs, use primitive landing places far up the coast of New Guinea, and ...
Fargo, the lead ship of the class, was launched on 25 February 1945, but was not commissioned until 9 December 1945, four months after the war ended. Huntington was commissioned early in 1946. The two ships were decommissioned in 1949–1950, and never reactivated. [citation needed]