[54] That SpanishAmerican War prize was replaced by the larger Dellwood for work with Alaskan cables. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202ft (62m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80ft (24m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. 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. USS General J. H. McRae; USS General J. H. McRae; USS General J. H. McRae; amerikanisches Schiff; ship built in 1944; schip van de United States Navy; , 1944 ; barku den Estadonan Uni di Merka, USAT General J. H. McRae underway, circa 1946-1950 (NH 105099).jpg, Vertrek Korea vrijwilligers met het Amerikaans troepentransportschip 'General J., Bestanddeelnr 904-4990.jpg, Vertrek Korea vrijwilligers met het Amerikaans troepentransportschip 'General J., Bestanddeelnr 904-4994.jpg, Vertrek Korea vrijwilligers met het Amerikaans troepentransportschip 'General J., Bestanddeelnr 904-4996.jpg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:USS_General_J._H._McRae_(AP-149)&oldid=435983999, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Displaced Person Transports: Bareboat charter & involved in prewar construction of air ferry route bases, particularly Christmas Island. Since a ship may have many covers, they may be split among many pages so it doesn't They were operated by Transportation Corps with a variety of crewing schemes. Keith McRae: Chief Executive Officer: To view USAT's complete executive team members history, request access USAT Signals . [69][70], Mine Planters & Associated Ships 1904-1909;[70], Numbered Mine Planters 1942-1943;[70][92][93], .mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}[A]Cyrus W. Field was a Signal Corps ship closely associated with mine cable work and sometimes listed with the planters. [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. This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during coasts.[60][61][62][63][64][65][66]. 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. families together. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to Military Sea Transportation Service and operated as USNS General J. H. McRae (T-AP-149). Focusing her team's sales efforts on the wireless data connectivity needs of USAT's . USS General H. B. Freeman (AP-143) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. Typical C-4 Troopship used to transport Displaced Persons, "We watched them come aboard [14]) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type; The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non-hopper dredges. [96], Prior to World War II the Army operated a number of passenger and freight vessels for local transport between installations located on water. left via Italy or Shanghai. Displaced Persons were mostly Eastern to Watson B. Miller, Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, "A The mix of USAT, CS and even the simple "Steam Ship" (SS), as seen in postwar construction of the SSWilliam H. G. Bullard, later the USS/USNS Neptune,[55] can be somewhat confusing. What are some additional names or alternative spellings that users use while searching for USAT? During World War II, five seagoing hopper dredges already in civil service, were fitted with 3-inch deck guns and 20-millimeter antiaircraft guns. CSQ (Quarters) ships acted as floating dormitories. One source states the Army had 30 junior mine planters by 1919. They and other smaller Army craft were simply designated as Army with "U.S. Army" over the number.[136]. All were simply U.S. Army (LT/ST #).[1][155]. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. postmark has the same classification, then they should be further sorted by date of This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where they could become farmers or factory workers. was also on hand.". File:USAT General J. H. McRae underway, circa 1946-1950 (NH 105099).jpg. 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. We learned to avoid being downwind he came to the United States as a Displaced Person (D.P. Williams, Greg H.; "World War II U.S. Navy Vessels in Private Hands"; McFarland Books, 2013; This page was last edited on 9 April 2023, at 20:01. In 1946 she was transferred to the US Army and operated as USAT General J. H. McRae. 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. Ten ships, nine being Maritime Commission type N3-M-A1 cargo vessel hulls being built at Penn Jersey Shipbuilding for the U.S. Navy or Lend Lease, were transferred to the Army for operation as Engineer Port Repair Ships. [1], As USAT General J. H. McRae she transported troops through 1950. Of the 24 steam cargo concrete vessels, 17 were converted by the Army into floating storehouses, 5 were used by the Army as training ships and 2 found an honorable end when sunk to form part of the breakwater protecting the American landing in Normandy at Omaha beach.A. The conventional commercial and nautical term for such ships was "CS (name)" for "Cable Ship." [51] The transport Hooker was fitted as a cable ship for Philippine service arriving in Manila from New York 26 June 1899. page on the Internet or in published material please notify usmm.org @ comcast.net. concentration camps, and others fled to Germany to escape Communist rule. The Transportation Corps determined that at war's end it was operating 746 tugs of the LT/ST types. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. [51] Much of this work had been in relation to communications with far flung Army forces in the Philippines and Alaska. She was sold for scrapping in Taiwan, 2 October 1986 and broken up in 1987.[4]. private companies. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to Military Sea Transportation Service and operated as USNS General J. H. McRae (T-AP-149). Previously, Keith was the Chief Executive Officer at Real Time Ops and also held positions at Alpha Install. Stefania loved to entertain, spend time with family, and knit. Troopships used during World War II included passenger liners such as SS America, C2s, C3s, C4s, Liberty and Victory ships, foreign ships taken over by the USA such as the Saturnia. for information about a troopship listed on this website. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. [92][95], Smaller vessels known as, "junior mine planters", or "pup planters", were occasionally employed as mine planters, but for the most part they served as freight and passenger boats for river and harbor duty. Dimensions were 158' 3" LOA 32' beam (moulded) at deck 8' draft powered by two 300hp diesels,[42] and was equipped with a 30-ton jumbo lift boom along with regular cargo booms and had a cargo capacity of 500 measurement tons. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to Military Sea Transportation Service and operated . Each page link should be accompanied by a date taken "many cruises on some of the world's biggest cruise ships, but Stewart that carried D.P. She was named in honor of U.S. Army general William George Haan. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. McRae. They were U.S. Army tugs, but not carried in the same central listing as the U.S. built tugs. George D. 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Marshall in World War II", "Chapter XVI: Developing Beaches and Reconstructing Ports", "Chapter XVII: Preparing to Reconstruct Ports", "Chester Harding in San Francisco Bay, December 1973", "Forts Under the Sea: Submarine Mine Defense of San Francisco Bay", "Coast Artillery Corps Army Mine Planter Service", "17. Early in the war a number of designs were inaugurated. Army Transport Service and its successor, Military Sea Transportation Service, Joseph Henry was a cable ship transferred to the Coast Artillery Corps. USS General W. G. Haan (AP-158) was a General G. O. Squier -class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. Officer In Charge of the Torpedo Depot", "U.S. Army Junior Mineplanter (USJMP) Lt. Col. M.N. [15] In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Technical management of the cable ships was under Signal Corps and the entire enterprise of undersea cable work was the very specialized realm of several large communications corporations which operated their own cable vessels and provided experts in handling cable equipment and cable. Ainsworth. 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). She was named for US Army Major General James H. McRae. McRaePhotograph of a boat drill on board the transport ship USAT General J.H. operated some of the refugee ships; others were operated under charter by [51], The Army entered the field of undersea cable work in connecting the military installations in the Philippine Islands. "Ex-Transport Carries D.P. "Although about half the bunks they were leaving their mother continent, probably never to return again. was the first American troopship to carry European refugees to their new homes General McRae died 1 May 1940 at Berkeley, Calif. {DANFS}. Research family history relating to the Holocaust and explore the Museum's collections about individual survivors and victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution. Restorer in 1941. The crossing was For example, the vessel Orizaba (not the later Army owned vessel of the same name) was under Army charter from the Pacific Coast Steamship Company before being lost in 1900. earliest known usage. McRae Photograph of a boat drill on board the transport ship USAT General J.H. Returned to the Maritime Commission, 30 June 1947, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA. Keith McRae, Chief Executive Officer. During World War II the U.S. Army operated approximately 127,800 watercraft of various types. The numbers below[1] give an idea of the scope of that Army maritime operation: Limiting the number to only the named and numbered vessels, discounting the various simple barges and amphibious assault craft, the remaining number is 14,044 vessels. 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. 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. Built as "Belfast", 1909, by Bath Iron Works. Some, such as "Design 277" (Vessel, Passenger-Cargo, Diesel, Wood, 114') were wooden hull while the "classic" "Design 381" (Vessel, Supply, Diesel, Steel, 177') was a miniature steel cargo vessel with two hatches and central booms. its lifetime. The Museums Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more. image of a cover showing that postmark. Acting as an architect of USAT's evolution and success for over 15 years. 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. Naval Academy, The Sullivan Brothers and the Assignment of Family Members, Historic Former U.S. Navy Bases and Stations, The African American Experience in the U.S. Navy, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. Navy, Contributions of Native Americans to the U.S. Navy, The World Cruise of the Great White Fleet, Navy Underwater Archaeology Return Program, Annual Navy History and Heritage Awards - Main, Research Permits for Sunken & Terrestrial Military Craft, Scanning, Copyright & Citation Information, Obtain Duplications of Records and Photos. USNS GENERAL J. H. McRAE T-AP-149. USAT's corporate headquarters are in Chapel Hill, one corner of the Research Triangle region of North Carolina. (McKeller Req1/MARAD VSC). USS General H. L. Scott (AP-136) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2007. "The McRae Spray Souvenir Edition". All were U.S. Coast Guard-crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). These, as with all the smaller Army ships, were simply designated "U.S. Army name (number)", and not designated U.S. Army Transport (USAT). == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Photograph |description = {{en|1=The U.S. Army Transport USAT ''General J. H. McRae'', circa 1946-1950. My husband served as Third Engineer Placed out of service, 29 October 1954, at San Diego, CA. meager belongings. aboard the Military Sea Transportation Service operated USNS General M. B. [25] A number of the tugs became Navy tugs after 1950. Five, from 350ft (110m) to 390ft (120m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. 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. McRae. [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. Like other Displaced Persons, we soon found out R. L. Howze. [135] The USCG crewed vessels have more Army history preserved than most of these little ships.[136]. You may quote material on this web page as long as you cite American Vertrek Korea vrijwilligers met het Amerikaans . All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. food was probably not great, but is was the best we had eaten in years. In July 1948, the U. S. Immigration Harry Steeber sailed to New York aboard this ship. USAT has 5 employees across 2 locations. Harry Steeber sailed to New York aboard this ship. 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. During 1944 she sailed from West Coast ports carrying troops to Honolulu, Hawaii and other Pacific Theater destinations. "Among them, the largest group out of a machine, and in the evening we saw black-and-white American movies There was Attorney On 24 February 1960 she was transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benicia, California. 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. Run," L. N. Mermer, The Mast Magazine, July 1948 McRae. ), and that he has take forever for the pages to load. - 2002. TTY: 202.488.0406. Among those in the 1918 register were Major L'Enfant, a steamer that served on the Potomac and burned in Baltimore on 3 December 1919[131][132][133] and General Meigs, a Quartermaster Corps passenger and freight steamer built in 1892 by John H. Dialogue & Son, Camden New Jersey, and serving in the early 20th century with a name given to much larger ships later. ", Crowded accommodations in the women's hold. that although the streets in America were not paved with gold, America was [56] Army ship management lay in the Quartermaster Corps and later the Transportation Corps. voyages. McRae.". Representative Frank Those, included vessels not related to transport such as . 3, Richmond, CA. of Troopships of World War II ", My parents heard the streets in The other ship, first obtained for the purpose, was a commercial ship allocated by the War Shipping Administration (WSA). Seagoing tugs, 92'-100' or greater were designated Large Tug (LT). "DP's on Way in 6 Months," New York Times, July 10, 1948 the first time in my life I had oranges, bananas, nickel Cokes in bottles For [1] 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. Keith McRae is the Chief Executive Officer at USAT based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 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. since I too came to the United States as a Displaced Person in 1949. Merchant Marine at War, www.usmm.org, as the source. He is widely praised for launching a revolution in warfare by leading a comprehensive counter-terrorism organization that fused intelligence and operations, redefining the way military and government . After the war they were housed in camps administered by the International former officer's dining room. Home, www.USMM.org 1998 Seven cargo vessels were converted to spare parts depot ships to facilitate the maintenance of military equipment in oversea areas. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. Find People you served with from USAT General J. H. McRae. Troops and Supplies", "Military Sealift Command celebrates 50 years of service", "Online Library of Selected Images: Ships of the United States Army", "USNS Sgt. General Tom Clark to convey a message to them from President Truman. The original image is printed on a postcard which was mailed 11 August 1969. 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. The list is in chronological order. These were operated by the Quartermaster Corps. Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volumes I-III of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. 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