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USS U.S. Grant (AP-29)
ex
 USAT U.S. Grant (1922 - 1940)
 USAT Madawaska (1919 - 1922)
USS Madawaska (ID #3011) (1917 - 1919)
USS König Wilhelm II (1917)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Whiskey - Kilo - Delta
NWKD
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - World War I Victory Medal (with Transport clasp) - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal
Steel-hulled screw steamer:
  • Laid down in 1918 at Vulcan Aktrenegesellecraft, Stettin, Germany as SS König Wilhelm II
  • Launched, 20 July 1907
  • Seized by the US Government at the United States entrance into WWI
  • Commissioned USS König Wilhelm II, 27 August 1917
  • Renamed USS Madawaska (ID-3011), 1 September 1917
  • Decommissioned, 2 September 1919, struck from the Naval Register and turned over to the US War Department for use as a transport
  • Commissioned USAT Madawaska, 1 September 1919
  • Renamed USAT U. S. Grant, 3 June 1922
  • Reacquired by the Navy in 1940
  • Commissioned USS U. S. Grant (AP-29), 16 June 1941
  • During World War II USS U.S. Grant was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaign:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Campaign and Dates
    Aleutians operations Attu occupation, 14 May 1943
  • Decommissioned, 14 November 1945
  • Returned to the War Department
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 28 November 1945
  • Transferred by the War Department to the Maritime Commission for disposal
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 24 February 1948, to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, MD.
  • USS U.S. Grant (AP-29) received one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 15,010 t.
    Length 508' 2"
    Beam 55' 3"
    Draft 27' 6"
    Speed 15 kts.
    Complement 211
    Troop Accommodations 1,244
    Armament
    World War I
    unarmed
    World War II
    two single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts
    four single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts
    Propulsion steam turbine
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    USS König Wilhelm II
    U S Grant 115k The German Passenger Liner SS König Wilhelm II probably at Hoboken, New Jersey, circa April 1917, after she had been seized by the United States. Note sentry in the foreground. She was turned over to the Navy and commissioned on 27 August 1917 as USS König Wilhelm II. Her name was changed to USS Madawaska on 1 September 1917 and she later received the identification number 3011. She was transferred to the War Department in September 1919 and subsequently served as USAT Madawaska, USAT U.S. Grant and, after 1941, USS U.S. Grant (AP-29).
    US Navy photo # NH 94204 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    USS Madawaska (ID #3011)
    U S Grant 70k USS Madawaska (ID-3011) at sea during a trans-Atlantic trooping voyage, November 1917.
    US Navy photo # NH 83124 from the collection of Chief Warrant Officer J.B. Dofflemeyer, 1972.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    U S Grant 94k Ships in convoy, USS Madawaska (ID #3011) is at right, and USS Rowan (Destroyer #64) at left. Photographed from USS San Diego (Armored Cruiser #6)
    US Navy photo # NH 83125 from the collection of Chief Warrant Officer J.B. Dofflemeyer, 1972.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    U S Grant 76k Halftone reproduction of photo of USS Madawaska (ID #3011) taken circa 1918, showing the ship painted in "dazzle" camouflage.
    US Navy photo # NH 85171 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, courtesy of William H. Davis, 1977.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    U S Grant 80k USS Madawaska (ID #3011) underway at sea in 1918, while she was painted in "dazzle" camouflage. A "1000-ton" type destroyer, also in camouflage paint, is in the left background. Photographed by "HF Co". The original image is printed on postcard ("AZO") stock.
    US Navy photo # NH 105376 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2007.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    U S Grant 49k USS Madawaska (ID #3011) at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 19 February 1919 in a panoramic photograph, taken by the G.L. Hall Optical Co., Norfolk, Va. Note Navy Yard railway crane in the right center foreground, with two very large crates beyond. USS Madawaska is still wearing World War I "dazzle" camouflage, more than three months after the Armistice. Most of the clutter seen in the upper part of the image is the coaling gear and other upper works of a Navy collier tied up off USS Madawaska's opposite (port) side.
    US Navy photo # NH 98556 donated the US Naval Historical Center by the Norfolk Naval Shipyard Museum, Portsmouth, VA.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    U S Grant 98k View on board USS Madawaska (ID #3011), circa 1917-1918, looking aft from her bow. Note life rafts on her foremast shrouds and stacked on deck.
    US Navy photo # NH 98552 from the collection of Arthur A. Wright, donated by his brother, Everett B. Wright, January 1978 to the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    U S Grant 87k View on board USS Madawaska (ID #3011), circa 1917-1918, looking aft over her stern. Location is probably New York Harbor.
    US Navy photo # NH 98553 from the collection of Arthur A. Wright, donated by his brother, Everett B. Wright, January 1978 to the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    U S Grant 47k USS Madawaska (ID-3011) underway, circa 1917. .
    U S Grant 106k USS Madawaska (ID #3011) in port, with much of her crew on deck, circa late 1918 or early 1919. Photographed by Holladay, Newport News, Virginia.
    US Navy photo # NH 103145 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    USAT Madawaska
    U S Grant 96k USAT Madawaska in harbor, circa 1920-1921. The ship, was renamed USAT U.S. Grant in 1922.
    US Navy photo # NH 76072 from the collections US Naval Historical Center, courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1972.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    USAT U.S. Grant
    U S Grant 125k
    Namesake

    Ulysses S. Grant, victorious commander of the Union Army during the Civil War, and 18th President of the United States, was born 1822 at Point Pleasant, Ohio. He graduated from West Point in 1843; served under Taylor and Scott in the Mexican War; resigned his commission 1854. On the outbreak of Civil War he was commissioned Colonel of the 21st Illinois Volunteer Infantry, later Major General of Volunteers. His wise use of power afloat in combined operations, commencing with the occupation of Paducah, Ky., won impressive victories at Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga. His determination to win prompted Lincoln to appoint him supreme commander of the Union forces. His relentless campaign against Richmond, in which he continued to take full advantage of the North's control of the sea, forced Lee to surrender at Appomattox. In 1867 Grant received an interim appointment as Secretary of War. In 1868 he was elected to his first of two terms as President. He devoted his later years to the writing of his "memoirs," which were published in 1885, the year of his death.
    Digital ID: cph 3a53291 Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division    		 Bill Gonyo
    U S Grant 65k USAT U.S. Grant underway, circa 1920s or 1930s.
    US Navy photo # NH 67486 from the collections US Naval Historical Center, courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1972.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    U S Grant 74k USAT U.S. Grant in port, circa the 1930s. The original image is printed on postcard ("AZO") stock. .
    US Navy photo # NH 105104 from the collections US Naval Historical Center, donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2007.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    U S Grant 107k USAT U.S. Grant underway in Manila Bay, 11 May 1938. Photographed by the U.S. Army Air Corps Second Observation Squadron. Note the U.S. flag painted on her side.
    US Navy photo # NH 93756 from the collections US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    U S Grant 90k USAT U.S. Grant steaming in the Sibuyan Sea, Philippine Islands, 23 October 1938. Photographed by the U.S. Army Air Corps Second Observation Squadron.US Navy photo # NH 93755 from the collections US Naval Historical Center. US Naval Historical Center
    U S Grant 75k USAT U.S. Grant at Honolulu T.H., circa 1936. Photo by Edward Cwalinski US Army Ret. Barry Litchfield
    USS U.S. Grant (AP-29)
    U S Grant 38k USS U. S. Grant (AP-29) underway, circa 1941 to 1945 Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
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