USS Storm King (AP-171), 1944-1946

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USS Storm King, a 13,910-ton transport, was built at Wilmington, North Carolina. Acquired by the Navy and commissioned in December 1943, she was subsequently converted to a troopship at Staten Island, New York. Storm King went to the Pacific in April 1944 and from June 1944 into March 1945 participated as an assault transport in the landings at Saipan, the Palaus, Leyte and Lingayen, as well as providing general transportation services in the war zone. A West Coast overhaul was followed by further Pacific Ocean passenger and cargo transport duties that lasted for nearly a year after Japan's surrender.

In July 1946, Storm King was sent to the Atlantic seaboard, where she was decommissioned the following month and returned to the Maritime Commission. The ship was sold in 1947 and subsequently operated as the merchant ship Santa Cruz (1947), Gulf Farmer (1947-1964) and Ranger (1964-1970). She was scrapped in 1970.


  
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