USS/USNS General A.W. Greely (AP-141, later T-AP-141), 1945-1968

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USS General A.W. Greely, a 9950-ton C4 type transport, was built at Richmond, California, in 1944-45. Acquired by the Navy and commissioned in March 1945, she performed personnel transportation duties in the Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic for the next year. She was decommissioned in March 1946 and transferred to the Army Transportation Service, in whose hands she continued to carry troops and other personnel until March 1950, when she was reacquired by the Navy and assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) under the designation T-AP-141.

From the summer of 1950 to May 1951, USNS General A.W. Greely made four voyages from the U.S. to Japan in support of Korean War needs. She then shifted to the Atlantic, where she transported personnel to and from Europe and provided other services for three more years. General A.W. Greely briefly operated in the Pacific from mid-1954 until she was placed out of service in March 1955.

After being laid up for well over a decade, General A.W. Greely was sold for commercial use. Converted to a container ship in 1968, she subsequently was renamed several times, becoming Hawaii Bear in 1969, Austral Glade in 1975, Pacific Enterprise in 1979 and Caribe Enterprise in 1982. She was sold for scrapping in 1986.

  
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