USS General Stuart Heintzelman
_at_anchor,_circa_in_1945.jpg) USS General Stuart Heintzelman (AP-159) at anchor, circa in 1945
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | General Stuart Heintzelman |
| Namesake | Stuart Heintzelman |
| Builder | |
| Laid down | date unknown |
| Launched | 21 April 1945 |
| Acquired | 12 September 1945 |
| Commissioned | 12 September 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 12 June 1946 |
| In service |
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| Out of service |
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| Reclassified | T-AP-159, 1 March 1950 |
| Identification | IMO number: 6903187 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1984[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 | 26 ft 6 in (8.08 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 Stuart Heintzelman (AP-159) was a
Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS General Stuart Heintzelman (T-AP-159). She was later sold for commercial operation before being scrapped in 1984.[1]
Operational history
General Stuart Heintzelman (AP-159) was launched under a Maritime Commission contract (MC #716) 21 April 1945 by Kaiser Co., Inc., Yard 3, Richmond, California; sponsored by Mrs. C. H. Wright; acquired by the Navy and simultaneously commissioned 12 September 1945.
After shakedown out of
Magic-Carpet" run to Manila and Yokohama and returned to San Francisco 3 March 1946 with a full load of homeward-bound troops. Following a round-trip voyage from San Francisco to Manila and return, General Stuart Heintzelman steamed from the West Coast via Panama to New York, where she arrived 27 May. She decommissioned there 12 June and was returned to WSA for use as an Army transport by the Army Transport Service
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On 30 October 1947 USAT General Stuart Heintzelman left Bremerhaven with 843
Fremantle, Western Australia on 28 November 1947.[2][3] This voyage was the first of almost 150 voyages by some 40 ships bringing refugees of World War II to Australia.[4] General Stuart Heintzelman made three more such trips herself, arriving in Melbourne with 822 refugees on 20 April 1948, in Sydney with 1301 on 24 November 1949, and in Melbourne with 1302 on 3 March 1950.[4]
She also made a trip from Germany to New York, bringing [TK] refugees and arriving on 13 January 1950. Another trip departed Bremerhaven on 17 April 1950.
General Stuart Heintzelman was reacquired by the Navy 1 March 1950 and assigned to overseas transport duty under
On 24 June 1954 General Stuart Heintzelman was deactivated and assigned to the
Sea Land Service by Alabama Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company of Mobile, AL.[7][8] She was scrapped in Taiwan in 1984.[1]
References
- ^ Tündern-Smith, Ann (31 August 2006). "First of the Fifth Fleet". FifthFleet.net. Retrieved 9 November 2007.
- ISBN 9781922815811.
- ^ a b Tündern-Smith, Ann (31 December 2006). "Ships of the Fifth Fleet". FifthFleet.net. Retrieved 9 November 2007.
- ^ "28th Infantry Division". USArmyGermany.com. Retrieved 9 November 2007.
- ^ "Kaiser Company, Inc., Richmond No. 3 Yard, Richmond CA". Colton Company. Archived from the original on 13 July 2007. Retrieved 9 November 2007.
- ^ Cudahy, 2006, p. 264
- ^ Williams, 2013, p. 136
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
Wikimedia Commons has media related to USS General Stuart Heintzelman (AP-159).
- Photo gallery of General Stuart Heintzelman at NavSource Naval History