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A U.S. General G. O. Squier-class troop transport Aiken Victory, a Victory ship troop ship conversion, arriving in Boston with 1,958 troops from Europe, 26 July 1945 [4] Large numbers of troopships were employed during World War II, including 220 "Limited Capacity" Liberty ship conversions, 30 Type C4 ship-based General G. O. Squier-class, a class of 84 Victory ship conversions, and a small ...
Of the 257 ships sunk by submarines from World War I convoys, only five were lost while aircraft assisted the surface escort. [6] On 26 December 1917, as an airship was escorting three merchantmen out of Falmouth for their rendezvous with a convoy, they were attacked three times in the space of 90 minutes, torpedoing and sinking two of the ...
USS Siboney (ID-2999) was a United States Navy troopship in World War I.She was the sister ship of USS Orizaba (ID-1536). Launched as SS Oriente, she was soon renamed after Siboney, Cuba, a landing site of United States forces during the Spanish–American War.
USS America (ID-3006) was a troop transport for the United States Navy in World War I. She was launched in 1905 as Amerika by Harland & Wolff in Belfast for the Hamburg America Line of Germany . As a passenger liner , she sailed primarily between Hamburg and New York .
Troop and cargo ships over 1,000 gross tons that often carried the U.S. Army Transport ship prefix "USAT" with their name if they were Army owned or bareboat chartered: 1,557 ships 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 ...
Transport ships of the United States Army (8 C, 142 P) D. ... Pages in category "Troop ships of the United States" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of ...
At the outset of World War I the ship was interned by the United States and, when the US entered the war in 1917, was seized and converted to a troop transport. Originally commissioned as USS Grosser Kurfürst , the ship was renamed Aeolus — after the god of wind in Greek mythology — while undergoing repairs and conversion at a US Navy yard.
The ship was the first of a series of three to be built for the line with the others being Sonoma and Ventura. [ 4 ] The U.S. Navy acquired her from the John D. Spreckel Brothers Company in San Francisco , California , on 27 May 1918 for use as a troop transport during World War I and assigned her the identification number 1634.