The first several hours I remember sitting at the rear of the ship with a few other guys watching the NY skyline disappear. 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. ", Others were too young to remember the storms as the ship carried not only soldiers but, for some, their families. Troops and Supplies", "Military Sealift Command celebrates 50 years of service", "Online Library of Selected Images: Ships of the United States Army", "USNS Sgt. 9054", "About Army Watercraft Designations: Harbor Boat Designations With Explanatory Notes", "U.S. Army Ocean Tugs (LT, ST) Built During WWII", "U.S. Army Ocean Tugs (LT, ST) Built Since WWII", "Transportation Corps Water Division 1942-1949", "James A. Hannah IMO 5200289 Callsign WU8842", Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_ships_of_the_United_States_Army&oldid=1117369253, Transport ships of the United States Army, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Troop and cargo ships over 1,000 gross tons that often carried the U.S. Army Transport, Other ships over 1,000 gross tons, including hospital ships (prefix "USAHS"), cable ships, aircraft repair ships, port repair ships and others without any title other than "U.S. Army" and a number or name: 108 ships, Vessels under 1,000 gross tons of numerous types that include the 511 FS ("Freight and Supply") small nonstandard coastal freighters of numerous designs, 361 minecraft with the large Mine Planters carrying U.S. Army Mine Planter (prefix "USAMP") with a number above a name, 4,343 tugs of all types and a varied array of 4,697 launches and small service craft just designated U.S. Army with a number or name: 12,379, Barges and non-propelled watercraft that included 16,787 pontoons: 25,383, LARC Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in, RIB Rapidly Installed Breakwater System, BCDK Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure, BCL Barge, dry-cargo, nonpropelled, large, FMS Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled, TCDF Temporary crane discharge facility, World War II in the Pacific Concrete Ships. The Bucknerwas formerly known as the transport Admiral E. W. Eberle. I guess that has always been the Army way. It was an experience I will never forget. I still have an old news paper, with news of the day with location and distance to port, printed on 20 April 1951. However, they were born too early and did not survive. "My uncle who served in the US Army had traveled on this ship at least twice to and from assignment between the States and Germany. The bow itself was at least twenty stories tall! He is making his headquarters in Heidelberg in order to maintain closer liaison with the EUCOM transportation division, which has been handling the sea and land transportation of EUCOM personnel. My father was stationed in Germany and we were joining him for a two year stay. The master of the ship was C. J. If you have any We transited the canal overnight and sailed up to the Long Beach Naval Station. The Banner was a major defense against boredom. Mostly, the voyage was routine. [9][10] Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non-commissioned utility vessels. Accordingly, after a careful selection, 20 outstanding artists from seven agencies and units in the whole military will join a month-long training course (March 1 - 30). The two years we spent in Germany were very educational and alot of fun. Most of the cable was saved. For questions or comments about this site, please e-mail ww2_troopships@comcast.net. The food was excellent! I was a young airman being deployed to Germany. Troop ship buckner going to germany 1961. Sue Foss "was a few months old when my mother, dad, an Army officer, and brother sailed back from Bremerhaven to the States in late 1947. We are steeped in Sherlock Holmes. Reacquired by the Navy 3 March 1950 and Placed in Service. 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. Nicknamed the "Ambassador Ship," from February 1961 to July 1963, Blatchford transported a total of 43,500 troops from Malaysia, India, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Morocco, and even Iraq, over a total of 227,000 miles. How are you supposed to clean in that? From a recent article that appeared in the SERVICE FAMILY JOURNAL: I can still remember my sister putting up a fuss and two orderlies had to come into the room and help the nurse. Sherlock is one of the best-known fictional characters in English. Another vessel rescued the 20 crew members on board. 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. The Army soon renamed the ship General Simon B. Buckner We were a CI detachment of 17 officers and enlisted, documented as civilians, wearing civilian clothes. It was pretty scary actually looking up at the water. This information, specifications and resulting ship histories are gathered and compiled from from various sources that many times conflict. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":[7]. This page features, and provides links to, selected views In 1951 the ship continued to sail from California to Yokohama and Guam in support of the UN war effort in Korea until she left San Francisco for Galveston, Texas, 29 June. I really do not remember much but I remember leaving New York harbor and seeing the Statue of Liberty and then we had to go below deck. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Military Sealift Command collection at the Naval History and Heritage Command. I was glad I had been in the 23rd class of Artillery OCS. It was great fun, and our nine issues were a big hit because we serialized a Sherlock Holmes novel. and operated her with a civilian crew as part of its water transportation USNS General Simon B. Buckner (T-AP-123) In drydock at the North German Lloyd shipyard at Bremerhaven after suffering ice damage to her propeller structure in the Weser River the previous winter. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in August 1990 and sold by the Maritime Administration in June 1997 for scrapping at Brownsville, Texas.". The soldiers onboard debarked first. Please Share your Stories! [25] A number of the tugs became Navy tugs after 1950. Each appears to have used familiar terms when noting the ships in records as seen in the Quartermaster reference,[54] and records elsewhere. "I was on this ship on our way to Viet Nam in Dec. of 1966. ); enjoying a five year run, and Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, also with a long run with just a few episodes each year. The crossing was so rough that the passengers renamed the ship on the spot as the USNT Up-Chuck. We watched them go down the gangplank with their heavy dufflebags. The Banner ran a news digest from the radio room every day, and had a lot of canned content used on every nine day voyage. During World War I they were often used to transport troops from training camps to embarkation piers, particularly at the New York Port of Embarkation. 111-SC-1002 - Damaged German ship - Destruction of a stream nozzle on the USS Madawaska, formerly the steamship Koenig Wilhelm II - NARA - 55163329.jpg 9,182 6,304; 19 MB. I remember the scene up on deck, we (pet owners) were the only ones allowed up top because we HAD to care for our animals. ", In addition to the soldiers and their families who were passengers, the Rose was also home to her crew. This information comes from the front page of a newspaper printed on the ship, at least during that cruise, named the Daily Herald. As bad as it was I wouldn't hesitate to do it again. I remember the crossing was mostly uneventful except for few days of giant swells which caused the ship to roll so severely that things flew off the table. The General Buckner, with 1,375 passengers, left the New York Port of Embarkation (at Brooklyn) on March 4 and is expected to arrive at Bremerhaven on March 11 or 12. ", Tom Nadeau also sailed in heavy seas, "My family was on the Rose in January, 1956 with the 11th Airborne Division. larger Army ships became part of the newly-created Military Sea ", Not all journeys went as well. After shakedown in Chesapeake Bay, General H. W. Butner sailed 23 February 1944 from Norfolk, Virginia carrying troops to Morocco. I had a crew of clerk typists who made mimeograph masters we ran off every morning. I also had my fifth birthday on the ship and it looked like a very large three-tiered cake and there seemed to be a lot of kids. That evening it got very rough and the ship was rolling and rocking. Ownership passed back to the Navy, but the ship retained her Army name. [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. Havre, France. Joseph Henry was a cable ship transferred to the Coast Artillery Corps. This is the troop ship that took many of us to Viet Nam. If so, please let us know! In the following months she carried troops and dependents to the Mediterranean and back, then departed for the Pacific again 19 February 1952. Heavy seas were the norm on the route, as related by Patty Adkisson, "We were on our way home to Texas after my dad's tour of Duty in Frankfurt. She was redesignated T-AP-113 in October 1949. I can say it was a rude awakening from what I had gone to bed with last night! I learned quickly that the North Atlantic was not going to be a fun trip. As a Specialist 4, E4, I shared a cabin with another E4 in a forward cabin, near where the anchor was housed. This listing is a "work in progress" and additions will be made as they become known to us. General H. W. Butner received two service stars for Korean War service. Per the Navy Historical Center website, the USS Admiral Hugh Rodman, a 9,676-ton (light displacement) transport, was built by the Maritime Commission to its P2-SE2-R1 design as an Admiral W. S. Benson-class troop transport and was commissioned in July 1945. These vessels were primarily used as supply ships, that could retrieve aircraft if needed. Delivered transport from Bremerhaven Germany, arriving at port of New York, NY 6 March 1953. ", Mr. Baker continued, "We came into the harbor on Thursday evening, very late. USNS General Simon B. Buckner (T-AP-123). 1945 with a largely Coast Guard crew. Mr. Baker continued, "To keep the military on board somewhat occupied I and my cabin partner was assigned a bevy of security guards we had to post at various places throughout the ship, mostly at stairwells to observe seasick GIs mostly. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. of the 9th Infantry Division., was one of those aboard. Transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) under Navy captain and crew in October 1949, she departed for Norfolk via the Panama Canal and Bermuda, arriving 10 January 1950. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Speaking at the conference, Major General Le Xuan Sang underlined that this is the fifth time Vietnam is going to participate in the Army Games. There was a large space on the deck level where we all hung out during day. U.S. operations in Southeast Asia until March 1970, when she was Finally after about 10 days the water started to calm, and we caught our first sight of England. Admiral W. S. Benson-class transport built by the Maritime It was my honor to serve in the United States Army. The three-day exhibition, set to take place until Friday, is being held at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center in District 7. [7], Army Marine Ship Repair Company (T/O & E 55-47): I recall our landing craft front gate would not go completely down and we had to jump off onto the beach. CSM (Maintenance) ships, in addition to acting as CS ships, were also equipped for radio repair operations to supply floating maintenance. UPDATE September 2019: WW2 Troopships is currently undergoing an entire site re-design! service. According to Governor Nguyen Thi Hong, the SBV has engaged with four commercial banks and approved loan interest rates that are 1.5-2 per cent lower than the median lending rate of other banks. We pulled out of NY on May 5, 1961. Placed out of Service summer of 1967. The paper is looking pretty old like me today. I doubt that an American could go anywhere in the world today, in 2007, and get that kind of welcome now. 2 Army repair ships (Army repair ship or FMS). Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. You can see a submarine docked to the left of the ship. Some of these were substantial vessels, 300 feet long, with a 3,000-ton displacement and a crew complement of 60-plus men. HortEx Vietnam is the largest professional meeting place in Southeast Asia for businesses and experts in the vegetable, flower, and fruit industry. Commander Keen 4: The First and Only Video Game I Loved. Looking for more information from military/civilian I recall having mess in the AM (Green Eggs) and watching the port hole go under the sea and back up to the sky over and over again. The tug Sirius is assisting. ". She was turned over to the Maritime Administration (MARAD), and in March 1960 entered the National Defense Reserve Fleet, berthed in the James River, Virginia. They were seagoing diesel-electric hydraulic dredging vessels, normally functioning under the Army Corps of Engineers control, and used for maintaining and improving the coastal and harbor channels around the U.S. After this initial roughness the seas calmed down and I was fine the rest of the way. On the way back in 1955 there were some terrible storms. Those are found below under their Army names. The ship was converted for its new role at a cost of $4.5 million. The statement was made by GDPs Deputy Chief Senior Lieutenant General Do Can during a conference held by the GDPs head organs on February 28 to deploy training and combat readiness mission in 2023. But on the way back, we went through a storm, a propeller shaft broke and the propeller went to the bottom and some of the bottom of the ship flooded. (McKeller Req1/MARAD VSC). WW2troopships.com & WWIItroopships.com Web Site Copyright 2007 Shayne E. Wallesch & Wendy J. Hochnadel. ten more trips from New York to Bremerhaven and Southampton. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_General_H._W._Butner_(AP-113)&oldid=1064851761, Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States, Korean War auxiliary ships of the United States, World War II auxiliary ships of the United States, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, 19 to 20.6 knots (35.2 to 38.2km/h) (sources vary), This page was last edited on 10 January 2022, at 14:41. February 1947 and renamed her USAT General Maurice Rose. I did not get sick on the return but it took 10 days. 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. Digital photographs[11] of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. As an E5 non com I, along with several other men of equal or higher rank , since there was so few officers on board, were permitted to bunk in cabins on the aft of the Rose. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. We went about six miles in 24 hours. The ship had just been redecorated to improve comfort for military personnel and their families traveling to Germany. Thanks for letting me tell my story,and to all who sailed on her god bless you all. Following the abortive Hungarian revolution of 1957, the General Rose made three voyages from Bremerhaven carrying Hungarian refugees to New York. Her ports of call on this long voyage were Durban, South Africa; Bombay; Melbourne, Australia; and San Pedro, Los Angeles, where she arrived 1 July. I also worked in the food storage area of the ship both ways. We sailed from New Jersey on December 20, 1951 and arrived in Bremerhaven Germany on 2 January 1952. I went to the dispensary with my mother and there were quite a few of us lined up in the same condition. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). It was a smooth sailing ship. | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |. All the Navy's "Admiral" ships were transferred to the Army post war and were then renamed for generals. As we pulled out of NY harbor and passed the Statue of Liberty I felt a real sense of patriotism. [7] Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. And the cooks, they serve us hot dogs and sauerkraut! 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. During one such voyage, the ship carried much of the Third Brigade, 9th Infantry Division, which boarded in mid-December 1966 and arrived at Vung Tau late on December 31 to debark in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 1967 for train transport inland. As Dennis Gruhlke relates, "I sailed on the Rose from Norfolk, VA in September, 1966 as a member of the 702nd MI Detachment (CI). These, as with all the smaller Army ships, were simply designated "U.S. Army name (number)", and not designated U.S. Army Transport (USAT). It was 1963, and the U.S. Army was shipping me to Europe. They and other smaller Army craft were simply designated as Army with "U.S. Army" over the number.[136]. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Military Sealift Command collection at the Naval Historical Center. The transport Burnside was fitted as a cable transport and layer for the Philippines with three cable tanks capable of storing 550nmi (630mi; 1,020km) of cable.[53]. amzn_assoc_linkid = "4567fcddec696672c78205fd8d07f192"; Back To Justin United States Navy Unit History Exhibit, Pictures of the Maurice Rose, on Pic Search, Use Back Key To Return, Pictures of the Maurice Rose, also link to short history, and elsewhere on that page, a pictorial tribute to General Rose, 3rd Armored Division Site, Use Back Key To Return, Maurice Rose Wheelhouse, circa 1960, being visited by school children, (large image alone), Use Back Key To Return, Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, biography from USS Admiral Hugh Rodman Commissioning pamphlet, Use Back Key To Return, The Ship that took many of us to Viet Nam, site dedicated to the Rose as related to the 3rd Bde, 9th Infantry, Use Back Key To Return, Rough Crossing on the Maurice Rose, Navy Anecdotes, Justin Naval Oral History Collection, Biography of Dick Bergman, Sr. Airman, Det#3, 136th CSS, Camp Pieri, Germany & 6912th RSM, Manhattan AFB, USA, USAF, Cold War, Biography of Richard Sparta, Johnson Barracks, Furth, Germany, US Army, Cold War. It took us seventeen days to cross and General Maurice Rose from Bremerhaven, Germany to New York, returning from a 31 month tour in southern France. Alaska service. All the GIs in their life jackets lined up facing the water. fill out our online crossing submission form. Guys were walking around with paper bags. the command. [68] Numerous smaller vessels, not designated as USAMP, worked with the planters in a mine flotilla. We sailed in December 1949 from Bremerhaven, Germany to New York. California to Vietnam, then returned to the East Coast and made Within 5-10 minutes after reporting to the officer of the day the incident the soldier was found walking on B deck. please feel free to contribute that information as well. A detective novel became a shipboard community building event. personnel assigned to or associated with the U.S. Army ", The Rose met rough seas again just a few months later, as told by Chester Wright. The mixed smell of diesel and breakfast was about more than I could take. Page made 6 March 2006 As with other cable work, some vessels were chartered. Many of these men have vivid memories of the passage, and the rough seas the ship often encountered. It was a fun voyage with afternoon movies, on deck shuffleboard, a great game room, and my favorite activity -- making paper airplanes and flying them over the water. Between May 1947 and I have visited web sites, but can't find anything about this situation. The same wasn't true for friends of mine who came across soon afterwards on the USNT Upchurch. The hold where the enlisted men was awash in vomit. (1950-2000), USAT General Maurice Rose (1947-1950), USS Admiral Hugh Rodman (1945-1947), T-AP-126, AP-126, Troop Transport, WWII, Cold War, Vietnam. Real estate bailout eyes credit recovery The amount of the assistance package may exceed $5 billion if other institutions participate, Hong said. Her namesake, Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman (1851-1940), was with Dewey in the Spanish American war and commanded US forces with the English under Beatty in WWI. Those cargo holds full of troops had waves of vomit sloshing back and forth as the ship rolled and pitched. All three terms are found in official usage. Arriving Casablanca 3 March, the ship returned to Norfolk for another load of troops, and sailed again for Casablanca, arriving back at Norfolk 20 April. It was bad. The machine was worn out, and the reproduction quality was terrible. stories or thoughts on the subject, please contact me. Apparently our Master had speed on his mind and we did not stop until we got to the Pacific. [51][56], The nature of the work is such that specialized crews are required to operate the cable machinery and perform the actual cable splicing and technical work. BERLIN (AP) New research reveals that the hunter-gatherer people who dominated Europe 30,000 years ago sought refuge from the last Ice Age in warmer places, but only those who sheltered in what is now Spain and Portugal appear to have survived. 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. [54] That SpanishAmerican War prize was replaced by the larger Dellwood for work with Alaskan cables. Patterson, Army JAG. Many of the men aboard had experienced sea sickness on the crossing but I was used to the water after fishing for years with my father on a large lake in Michigan`s UP. After As a civilian-manned MSTS transport, USNS General 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. I thought, 'surely this was the largest craft of any kind I have ever seen.' My father was a captain and he had five children at the time. Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957. The Mormons had a lot of bad press in Doyles era, what with polygamy and Brighams Theocracy. get to New York. Despite these important efforts, the primary duty of the Rose remained transporting troops and their families between America and Europe. Pages 1 & 2, Information Booklet, 1956. He always talked about how rough it was. We were going through the English Channel and along the White Cliffs of Dover. Attentively, this year, artists from the military art troupes of Military Regions 1, 2, and 7, and more have been chosen for the Army of Culture team. He has worked on several projects with Vietnamese artists Kim Ngoc, Vu Ngoc Tan, and has silently contributed to artistic cultural activities across Hanoi . In addition to these there were a variety of small towing craft, numbering in thousands, termed motor towing launches (MTL), sometimes overlapping the STs in length, and marine tractors of 40'and less length, some with the colorful name of "Sea Mules" with dimensions of 40 x 13 x 8 and two Chrysler gasoline engines. [13] (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command. The intended use of these ships after the war was trans-Pacific service. Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36. World War II Troop Ships claims no ownership of the images displayed on this site except for those expressly stated to have been photographed by "Shayne E. Wallesch". I though it was a wall in front of us, but it was the side of the ship! The ship was rolling so badly, the water was flying OUT of the cans! 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