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Where such a list is limited to identifying passengers, it is a passenger manifest or passenger list [2] or bag manifest; conversely, a list limited to identifying cargo is a cargo manifest [3] or cargo list, or a container manifest for cargo in a container. The manifest may be used by people having an interest in the transport to ensure that ...
Army ports: Passengers and tons of cargo embarked during the period December 1941 – August 1945. In World War II the NYPOE, now under the new Transportation Corps , was the largest of eight Port of Embarkation commands, the second largest being the San Francisco Port of Embarkation and the second largest on the East Coast being Hampton Roads ...
U.S. Army Cargo Vessel FP-343 ("FP" later changed to "FS"), a "Design 381" (Vessel, Supply, Diesel, Steel, 177'), was later to become Navy's T-AKL-34. Prior to World War II the Army operated a number of passenger and freight vessels for local transport between installations located on water. These were operated by the Quartermaster Corps.
On 19 May 1942, she embarked 4,725 Marines and 309 Navy and Army passengers for transportation to the South Pacific and moved to Hampton Roads to form up with a convoy bound for the Panama Canal Zone. Arriving at Cristóbal on 25 May 1942, Wakefield was released from the convoy to proceed west.
The veteran transport travelled 174,000 nautical miles (322,000 km) in ferrying 36,809 passengers to and from the Congo, Morocco, India, Pakistan, Malaya, and Indonesia. She circumnavigated the African continent several times and criss-crossed the Indian Ocean repeatedly while rotating United Nations soldiers, doctors, nurses, and technicians ...
USAT Buford was a combination cargo/passenger ship, originally launched in 1890 as the SS Mississippi. She was purchased by the US Army in 1898 for transport duty in the Spanish–American War . In 1919, she was briefly transferred to the US Navy , commissioned as the USS Buford (ID 3818) , to repatriate troops home after World War I , and then ...
The P2 transport was a United States Maritime Commission design for a passenger ship which could be readily converted into a troop transport. Three variants of the design were built, the P2-SE2-R1 ( Admirals ), P2-S2-R2 ( Generals ), and P2-SE2-R3 ( Presidents ).
Completed as an Army troop transport named for Major General David C. Shanks, the commander of the Port of Hoboken during World War I, the 12,097 GRT, 489 ft (149.0 m) overall length ship with capacity for 1,935 passengers was accepted by the Army, briefly put into New Orleans and made a voyage to Jamaica and return to New Orleans.