After only three days in port General H. W. Butner sailed again, this time eastward to the West Coast. Commission to its P2-SE2-R1 design, was commissioned in January amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; I will never forget! I'd had gotten sick in the car but this was even worse. Part 2. The soldiers onboard debarked first. Thanks for letting me tell my story,and to all who sailed on her god bless you all. General Maurice Rose from Bremerhaven, Germany to New York, returning from a 31 month tour in southern France. "I road that great vessel from Brooklyn, NY to Bremerhaven, FRG in June 1963. I was also exempt from all the nasty little jobs the Army gives troops to keep them busy. I don't remember any rough crossings as described by others, nothing like the seas I had seen on weather patrol off Iceland and Greenland in the Coast Guard, where heavy seas came over the bow.". The coast guard said it was monitoring a spill of diesel fuel, which had been powering the vessel, but had not found in the sea any industrial fuel oil from the ship 's cargo. we moved out of the English channel some time in the night. My mother was afraid of flying in an airplane so we went by ship We were processed through Ft. Hamilton, NY where received our battery of shots. Below decks were several hundred Army E-1s and E-2s who, as the story was told, had been released from Army stockades in exchange for volunteering to go to Vietnam. 1 The U. S. Military Response to the 1960 - 1962 Berlin Crisis Dr. Donald A. Carter The U. S. Army Center of Military History he election of a new U.S.T president, John F. Kennedy, in November 1960 renewed the East- West tensions surrounding the city of Berlin that had simmered since the Allied occupation of Germany She then took part in the occupation of Japan between August 1945 and March 1946 when she made five voyages from the U. S. west coast to the western Pacific, carrying occupation troops and relief personnel for veterans returning home. Before the month ended, the Korean War broke out, and General H. W. Butner was one of the handful of ships immediately available. 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 passengers on the ship were a lot of GI's headed to their first real duty station in Germany, stacked four deep in bunks in the cargo holds, and a large number of dependents, family members of career Army personnel. ", Mr. Baker continued, "We came into the harbor on Thursday evening, very late. I guess that has always been the Army way. The experience of Vietnam, EVN, and its public banks will be useful in preparing for a new financial pact to be announced by the President of France in Paris in June, he added. in Germany from 1945 to 1989. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The water was calm and I thought to my self this isn't going to be too bad. 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 Rose served with the Army I had pretty well settled down from anxiety and fear before all this happened, then for the next several hours it was stressful. Much of the Third Brigade, 9th Infantry Division went by troop train from Fort Riley, Kansas to Oakland, departing aboard the Rose in mid-December 1966 and arriving at Vung Tau late on December 31. Guys were walking around with paper bags. After the 1950 hand over these were merchant mariners, a civilian body that had manned our convoys during WWII and died in the tens of thousands to submarine and air attack. amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; For example, the 1918 registry, Merchant Vessels of the United States, under its Quartermaster vessels section lists some 33 small passenger and freight steamers, many former commercial vessels, ranging from the 72.1ft (22.0m) Peterson[131] to the 185ft (56.4m) El Aguila. We were to dock at Bremerhaven but were held off so mine sweepers could clear the area of WW2 mines that had been torn loose by the storms we had experienced on our trip. Each was equipped with a 40 by 72 feet (12m 22m) steel deck to support helicopter operations. Powers. I went top side and what I thought yesterday was the largest craft I had ever seen looked today like a little chip floating on the face of the water. The trip had taken 8 days and we were excited to see my father and get our feet on dry steady land. I do not know what kept us from sinking. However, they were born too early and did not survive. Capt. ", The soldier went on to say, "The ship was rolling way over. Apparently, she was known for rough crossings of the North Atlantic. Barnesand Noble has a two volume edition of Doyles Sherlock stories, and I am well into Volume One. Commander Keen 4: The First and Only Video Game I Loved. I don't think we rolled over far enough to take on water through the stacks, as you depict in your story, but for 2 days or so, GI's were vomiting everywhere, and we too were banned from going to the deck. for scrapping. Many of these men have vivid memories of the passage, and the rough seas the ship often encountered. From a recent article that appeared in the SERVICE FAMILY JOURNAL: she made three voyages from the West Coast to Japan and Korea It also took 15 days. 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. 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. 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. None of the troops were permitted above deck for some 2-2/12 days. The storm we experienced was as bad as the 1955 storm (related below). A Russian trawler struck an ice berg and was sinking north of us. The far-ranging transport departed France with troops 12 June, and arrived back in Norfolk 20 June. They were U.S. Army tugs, but not carried in the same central listing as the U.S. built tugs. USAREUR Charts - USNS Buckner Troopship. Mostly, the voyage was routine. One of these men manning the Rose was Robert Decker, a former Coast Guardsman. If you are interested in the histories of merchant ships that served during WWII (as well as during other wars) in any capacity or that were lost due to wartime activities, please watch for our sister site "Liners and Merchant Ships At War" that is currently under construction. Well we got dressed as the boat was rocking and by the time we were sitting at the breakfast table I was green around the gills and didn't want anything to eat. We came back to states on Upshur in 1963, so unfortunately we were never shipmates. Within 5-10 minutes after reporting to the officer of the day the incident the soldier was found walking on B deck. Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957. I can also remember seeing the ship for the first time. General H. W. Butner began a regular schedule from Brooklyn, New York, to Southampton and Bremerhaven soon afterward, supporting American military commitments in Europe. There were stories about previous trips with bad weather. This was a hand drawn and penned mimeographed affair similar to an old school newspaper that ships sometimes made. USNS General Simon B. Buckner (T-AP-123). amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "justinmuseum-20"; WWII LT construction did not use numbers greater than 935[156] with postwar LTs having four digit numbers until numbers starting with LT-801 were reused with 1993 construction.[157]. 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. I though it was a wall in front of us, but it was the side of the ship! They and other smaller Army craft were simply designated as Army with "U.S. Army" over the number.[136]. But for any American Soldier who never took that ride through the English Channel, and stood on the deck while the ship was being navigated through the Weser River to Bremen, I'm sorry to say, it was indeed your loss. During World War II the U.S. Army operated approximately 127,800 watercraft of various types. HortEx Vietnam 2023 has attracted 200 companies from 25 countries and territories, including Belgium, China, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the US, and UK. USAT GENERAL ALEXANDER M. PATCH. The head line is MacArthur policy. My job was to come up with some original content. Continuing the vital work of ferrying troops to and from the Pacific Theater, General H. W. Butner departed San Pedro 21 October 1944, called at Melbourne, Bombay, Sydney, and Nouma, and returned to San Pedro 7 January 1945. Grover: grounded twice in 1943. coasts.[60][61][62][63][64][65][66]. A number of vessels were operated by the Army as small coastal freighters and passenger vessels without being formally given FP/FS numbers. "I took the Patch to Germany in 1961 and the Rose back a year later. That changed during the night when I woke because of the ship rolling from side to side and the front of the ship crashing back into the water after being lifted by a wave. 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. February 1947 and renamed her USAT General Maurice Rose. We also hit a storm and lost mileage for three days." He made the events of the Victorian era come alive for his readers then. Media in category "Troop transports of the United States Navy". I learned another valuable lesson; one person cannot find another person on a ship if both persons are moving. I also worked in the food storage area of the ship both ways. We are steeped in Sherlock Holmes. This year, the department focused on compiling and finalizing the training document system and teaching materials, directing all units of the military to promote logistic training, improving the quality of specialized exercises, among others. The crossing was so rough that the passengers renamed the ship on the spot as the USNT Up-Chuck. moved definitively to the West Coast in August 1966, supporting [9][10] Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non-commissioned utility vessels. ", Similar sentiment was shared by self proclaimed "US Army brat" Edward E. Smith who "rode the ship from New York to Germany in February 1962 and the North Atlantic and the English Channel was terrible. Just out of technical school, I had one skinny little stripe on my sleeve. The Army assumed formal ownership of the ship in The Army has a fleet of approximately 500 watercraft, operated by units of the U.S. Army Transportation Corps. There were men scrambling all over, divers, cable running all over the deck, they were trying to hoist the shaft up and stop the flooding, a kitchen guy came on deck to throw the trash out and the wind caught it and it flew up on deck and stuck to the greasy cables, what a mess. It was rather uneventful until about the fifth day, (about the middle of the trip). ), 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. Headquarters of MSTS ELM is located at Grosvenor Square in London. B. Buckner was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in A detective novel became a shipboard community building event. During World War II he commanded American troops in Alaska, with headquarters at Fort Richardson, Anchorage. Admiral E. W. Eberle [1], Eleven Transportation Corps ships under technical management of Signal Corps are known to have been active in WW II and after:[1]. As with other cable work, some vessels were chartered. I stood on the deck of Rose and looked at all the headlights zipping along on shore and wondered, what and how much has changed since. I met and still have good buddies that made that same trip with me. Those are found below under their Army names. On the way back in 1955 there were some terrible storms. [36], Eleven of these small ships were built for the U.S. Army Air Corps/Army Air Forces in late 1942 through mid 1943. This is the troop ship that took many of us to Viet Nam. Bareboat charter & involved in prewar construction of air ferry route bases, particularly Christmas Island. Joe Merill, was one such man, "I took this ship from Brooklyn to Hamburg in November. I don't think we rolled over far enough to take on water through the stacks, as you depict in your story, but for 2 days or so, GI's were vomiting everywhere, and we . The Transportation Corps determined that at war's end it was operating 746 tugs of the LT/ST types. When we finally saw land it was a joyous occasion. I am going to have a lot of fun with Sherlock, Watson, and company. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R-4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter-equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. We watched them go down the gangplank with their heavy dufflebags. There were civilians aboard, military dependents, and lots of troops in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean for nine days with little to do. [57] The remaining ships were probably mixed crews. Army use as tug, 428 tons, 147' length, built Neafie & Levy 1897 as "Plymouth" to USCG as "Iris" 18991934, sold 21 June 1934 as "Plymouth", later "Big Chief" 1938, service with both the Army and Navy during World War II, "B. O. Colonna" 1956, scrapped 1973, United States Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command, Mine Planters & Associated Ships 1904-1909, "U.S. Army Coastal Freighters (F, FS) Built During WWII", List of World War II vessel types of the United States, "The U.S. Army's San Francisco Port of Embarkation in World War II", "USAT Fred C. Ainsworth (Transport, 1943-1950)", "Chapter 4: "Help on the Way". The one thing that sticks in my mind is standing in line for a breakfast of powdered eggs (and whatever ) and passing the door to the mechanical areas. This listing is a "work in progress" and additions will be made as they become known to us. [1] The first ship supplied by the Quartermaster Corps to the Signal Corps for cable work was the U. S. Army Transport Burnside. Troop Ship I went to Vietnam on along with my outfit. Click here to view a site map. | 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 |. 2 Army repair ships (Army repair ship or FMS). Biggest darn thing I'd ever seen.". These were operated by the Quartermaster Corps. 11-03-07 - Added information on 26 crossings. Somewhere in my years following that trip on Rose I lost my little book on her and the papers I had detailing when she had been built, what her duty had been, etc, today, on the internet I looked her up. I had received some second degree burns (water burns from an exploding radiator) just before we shipped out of Ft. Dix, NJ and the time I spent up on deck were painful with sea spray not mixing with my healing burns. A second trip to Vietnam was made between September 1966 and January 1967. was decommissioned in May 1946 and transferred via the Maritime Mine was Johnson Barracks in Furth. and operated her with a civilian crew as part of its water transportation If you find an error or discrepancy, please email me at ww2_troopships@comcast.net or (McKeller Req1/MARAD VSC). I still have an old news paper, with news of the day with location and distance to port, printed on 20 April 1951. An Army band was there to greet us and when the soldiers were disembarking they played the song "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now". For example, Smithsonian Institution library records clearly show some of these Army ships as CS Dellwood and CS Silverado. Wir freuen uns, Ihnen das brandneue Lego 41027 einfhren zu drfen! The ship had just been redecorated to improve comfort for military personnel and their families traveling to Germany. By February 13, 1950, the Rose was already making its 18th return passage from Europe. I don't remember any of those I sailed with from Germany except one boxer who happened to have similar name as I. The more confusing ships are those that were short-term or time or voyage chartered ships.[1]. All images are copyright their respective owners. I had commissary duties, so I had access to 7-up and soda crackers! [1] CS Restorer was under charter and used civilians, many from its commercial crew, under Army contract. That freedom continues to thrive today thanks to the efforts of her builders, her crews, and the passengers she carried. Another Air Force serviceman who went to Europe on the Rose was Dick Bergman, USAF, who "shipped out on the USNS General Maurice Rose bound for Bremerhaven Germany. VSC shows total loss, then revoked. The transport then retraced her steps to Melbourne and Bombay, arriving off the Indian coast 26 August. the command. Note: "Admiral' and "General" transports were P2 transport design variants, not an indicator of service affiliation. Placed out of Service summer of 1967. You can see a submarine docked to the left of the ship. The conventional commercial and nautical term for such ships was "CS (name)" for "Cable Ship." There was a large space on the deck level where we all hung out during day. In February 1955 she departed San Francisco for New York, Yes, this was my first of many bouts with sea sickness. Our crossing was uneventful. After the war came the reorganization that led to the U.S. Department of Defense rather than a separate United States Department of War and Department of the Navy with the decision on maritime logistics going in favor of it being administered by the Navy. We pulled out of NY on May 5, 1961. Roy Stanley Geiger, born 25 January 1885 in Middleburg, Fla., enlisted in the Marine Corps 2 November 1907 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant 5 February 1909. My father was stationed in Germany and we were joining him for a two year stay. Each morning a man would come through the halls with a xylophone and while playing it would shout out "Rise and Shine 7 o'clock!" WW2 Troopships is currently undergoing an entire site re-design! From there she returned to Melbourne with troops and sailed for California via Nouma and Efate, New Hebrides. This daring amphibious operation took the communist troops by surprise and forced them to abandon the ground they had taken in South Korea and to retreat north across the 38th Parallel. The next day our dining table server Baco suffered a heart attack while serving breakfast. But we made it. Me? I was the son of a career Navy officer, and our family rode the Rose from the U.S. to my father's ultimate duty station, aboard the USS Springfield in its French Riviera home port of Villefranche. We transited the canal overnight and sailed up to the Long Beach Naval Station. One of my first literary adventures was as editor of The Buckner Banner, the ship's newspaper on the USNS Simon Bolivar Buckner, a troopship sailing from New York to Bremerhaven, Germany. 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. 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.". ( more) Welcome Aboard! And my detail was latrine duty, cleaning the cans. Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36. I do not remember going back on deck for the rest of the trip until we reached Bremerhaven, but it was January and probably no one was allowed on deck. about Tanker with 800 tonnes of oil sank in Philippines waters, about Horticultural, floricultural tech expo opens in HCM City, about Vietnamese version of a foreigners blog launched, about Army of Culture team assigned missions for Army Games 2023, about Whole military starts new-year training courses in 2023, about Real estate bailout eyes credit recovery, about French groups keen to back green schemes, about Intl horticultural exhibition launched in Ho Chi Minh City after 2-year hiatus, Tanker with 800 tonnes of oil sank in Philippines waters, how much fully synthetic oil in philippines, bernard collaery oil under troubled water, bioaccumulation in marine organisms effect of contaminants from oil well produced water, while taking on fuel you notice oil on the water around the vessel, Horticultural, floricultural tech expo opens in HCM City, Vietnamese version of a foreigners blog launched, launch x431 diagun update download full version, Army of Culture team assigned missions for Army Games 2023, Whole military starts new-year training courses in 2023, Intl horticultural exhibition launched in Ho Chi Minh City after 2-year hiatus, Vietnam Life - Intl horticultural exhibition launched in Ho Chi Minh City after 2-year hiatus, reunification palace ho chi minh city vietnam, NA Chairman calls for Samsung to invest in semiconductor business in Vietnam, National Assembly Standing Committee carries out foreign affairs work for 2023, Hanoi to invest US$226M in streets and service roads under Ring Road No.4 project, ASEAN, E.U. The ships were laid down by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in Alameda, California. We debarked by landing craft at Vung Tau after about 35 days. Between August and October 1965 the Rose steamed from New York to the Far East to support U. S. forces in Vietnam. Joseph Henry was a cable ship transferred to the Coast Artillery Corps. He launched his art blog for artistic purposes, not for commercial gain. During the implementation, the SBV is prepared to refinance if participating banks have liquidity problems. According to the governor, Vietnams real estate industry requires a special loan package for the housing sector that helps address the market mismatch. SP 5 John T. Boyajian, of the 9th Admin. Five, from 350ft (110m) to 390ft (120m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. An aerial view of the oil spill in waters off Naujan in the province of Oriental Mindoro. "I too, crossed the Atlantic in December 1951, on the ship named "Maurice Rose". the end of 1948 she was converted to a peacetime transport, with military I learned quickly that the North Atlantic was not going to be a fun trip. 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. It was one of my greatest childhood memories. For questions or comments about this site, please e-mail ww2_troopships@comcast.net. The first several hours I remember sitting at the rear of the ship with a few other guys watching the NY skyline disappear. There were daily movies and a library, but little else for people to do. As a civilian-manned MSTS transport, USNS General She I rode the USNS Simone Bolivar Buckner to Germany and home two years later. Transiting the Panama Canal from New York, she arrived at Yokohama 19 March, and 3 days later began the long trip back to Panama. The food was excellent! 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