U.S. Army Transport Hunter Liggett, a 13,712 gross ton troop transport, was built at Sparrows Point, Maryland, in 1922 as the civilian passenger liner Pan America. In February 1939, she was turned over to the War Department for its use. Renamed Hunter Liggett, she was converted for military use and made her first voyage beginning in April 1939, steaming from New York to San Francisco, California, by way of the Panama Canal. During the next two years, she carried Army personnel and materiel in both the Atlantic and Pacific areas, and took part in amphibious exercises on occasion. The ship was taken over by the U.S. Navy in June 1941, becoming USS Hunter Liggett (AP-27). In March 1946, after spending all of World War II in Navy service, she was returned to the Army, but was not further employed. She was sold for scrapping in January 1948.