USS General H. B. Freeman
USNS General H. B. Freeman in the 1950s
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | General H. B. Freeman |
Namesake | Henry Blanchard Freeman |
Builder | |
Laid down | date unknown |
Launched | 11 December 1944 |
Acquired | 26 April 1945 |
Commissioned | 26 April 1945 |
Decommissioned | 4 March 1946 |
In service |
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Out of service |
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Reclassified | T-AP-143, 1 March 1950 |
Stricken | 24 July 1958 |
Identification | IMO number: 6903199 |
Fate | Scrapped[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | transport ship |
Displacement | 9,950 tons (light), 17,250 tons (full) |
Length | 522 ft 10 in (159.36 m) |
Beam | 71 ft 6 in (21.79 m) |
Draft | 24 ft (7.32 m) |
Propulsion | single- screw steam turbine with 9,900 shp (7,400 kW) |
Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
Capacity | 3,823 troops |
Complement | 356 (officers and enlisted) |
Armament |
USS General H. B. Freeman (AP-143) was a
Operational history
General H. B. Freeman (AP-143) was launched 11 December 1944 under a Maritime Commission contract (MC #710) by the Kaiser Co., Inc., Yard 3, Richmond, California; sponsored by Mrs. Marie Wheeler; converted in the Kaiser yard at Vancouver, Washington; acquired by the Navy 26 April 1945; and commissioned at Portland, Oregon, the same day.
After shakedown operations out of
More than 1,000 homeward-bound veterans boarded the transport which departed Okinawa 21 August 1945 headed via
She next entered the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, for inactivation overhaul and decommissioned there 4 March 1946. She was redelivered to the Maritime Commission for service with the Army's peacetime transport fleet.
General H. B. Freeman was reacquired by the Navy 1 March 1950 and assigned to
She was in the fleet that evacuated
The ship was rebuilt in 1968 by Todd Shipyards, Galveston, TX as the
References
- ^ "General H. B. Freeman, AP-143". Historian's Office, United States Coast Guard. August 2001. Retrieved 19 November 2007. [dead link]
- ^ Williams, 2013, p. 132
- ^ Cudahy, 2006, pp. 264, 281
Sources
- Cudahy, Brian J. (2006). Box Boats: How Container Ships Changed the World. Fordham University Press. ISBN 978-0-8232-2569-9.
- Williams, Greg H. (2013). World War II U.S. Navy Vessels in Private Hands. McFarland Books. ISBN 978-0-7864-6645-0.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- Photo gallery of General H. B. Freeman at NavSource Naval History