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USAT Republic
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 USAHS Republic (1945 - 1946)
 USS Republic (AP-33) (1941 - 1945)
 USAT Republic (1920 - 1921 / 1931 - 1941)
 USS President Grant (ID# 3014) (1917 - 1919)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Uniform - Kilo - Romeo
 NUKR
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - World War I Victory Medal (as President Grant) - (all others as Republic) - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
  • Built in 1907 as SS President Grant at Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, Northern Ireland, for the Hamburg-American Packet Steamship Co.
  • Interned at New York in 1914
  • Seized, 6 April 1917
  • Turned over to the Navy by the United States Shipping Board (USSB)
  • Commissioned USS President Grant (ID#-3014), 2 August 1917, CDR. J. P. Morton in command
  • Decommissioned, struck from the Naval Register, and transferred to the US Army, 6 October 1919
  • Commissioned by the Army Transportation Service (ATS) as USAT Republic in November 1920
  • Decommissioned in March 1921
  • Returned to the USSB for lay up at Norfolk, VA.
  • Placed in commercial service by the United States Lines in 1924
  • Reacquired by ATS in 1931 and recommissioned USAT Republic
  • Acquired by the Navy and commissioned USS Republic (AP-33), 22 July 1941, CDR. G. Clark in command
  • Decommissioned, 27 January 1945, at New Orleans, LA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 2 February 1945
  • Transferred to the US Army for conversion to a Hospital Ship by Waterman Steamship Co., Mobile, AL.
  • Recommissioned by the US Army Transportation Service (ATS) USAHS Republic August 1945
  • Designation changed to Transport USAT Republic, February 1946
  • Decommissioned by the ATS and returned to the Maritime Commission for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Olympia, WA., 9 May 1949
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 11 March 1952, to Bethlehem Steel Co.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 33,000 t.
    Length 599'
    Beam 68' 2"
    Draft 34'
    Speed 14.5 kts.
    Complement 712
    Armament
    four single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts
    two 1-pdrs
    two machine guns
    Propulsion steam turbine
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    Commercial Service
    Republic 11k SS President Grant underway in commercial service for Hamburg-American Packet Steamship Co., date unknown Gunter Krebs
    USS President Grant (ID# 3014)
    Republic 49k USS President Grant (ID# 3014) underway, 25 May 1918, while crossing to Brest in the largest troop convoy of the First World war. She is painted in a uniform coat of dark grey camouflage paint.
    US National Archives photo # 111-SC-13886, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 Robert Hurst
    Republic 53k USS President Grant (ID# 3014) at Brest, France. The original photograph bore a date of 18 July 1919. However, the 'dazzle' camouflage worn by President Grant indicates that it was actually taken in 1918.
    US Navy photo # NH 64963 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, Collection of Peter K. Connelly. Courtesy of William H. Davis, 1967    		 Robert Hurst
    Republic 101k A halftone reproduction of a photo of USS President Grant (ID# 3014) in pattern camouflage, circa mid-to-late 1918. Photo was originally published by A. M. Simon, 324 E. 23rd St., New York City, in 1919 as one of ten images in a 'Souvenir Folder' concerning USS President Grant.
    US Navy photo # NH 104241 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 Robert Hurst
    Republic 79k USS President Grant (ID# 3014) in New York Harbor, 1919. The original photo, taken by E. Muller Jr., of New York City, is printed on post card (AZO) stock.
    US Navy photo # NH 104956 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007.    		 Robert Hurst
    USAT Republic
    Republic 38k USAT Republic underway, off Hawaii, 2 June 1932
    Photo by 18th Air Base Photo Laboratory, Air Corps, Wheeler Field, Territory of Hawaii.    		 Emil L. Mesko
    Republic 117k USAT Republic alongside Pier No.9, Honolulu, T.H., at 10.40 AM, 22 November 1937. Honolulu power plant is in the right center. A 327-foot Coast Guard Cutter possibly USCGC Taney is alongside the pier at far left.
    US Air Force photo # 38381 A.C. from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 Robert Hurst
    Republic 82k A halftone reproduction of a photo of USAT Republic taken by the Army Air Corps prior to World War II, while the ship was near a pilot boat. Copied from the book 'Troopships of World War II', by Roland W. Charles.
    US Navy photo # NH 103413 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 Robert Hurst
    Republic 107k USAT Republic transiting the Panama Canal during the 1930s.
    US Navy photo # NH 67847 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Courtesy of Donald M. MacPherson, 1969.    		 Robert Hurst
    Republic 95k USAT Republic departing San Francisco Navy Yard, Hunters Point, following a post-World War II overhaul, circa 1946-1949.
    US Navy photo # NH 91266 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 Robert Hurst
    Republic 67k USAT Republic at anchor, location and location unknown. Russ Padden
    USS Republic (AP-33)
    Republic 115k USS Republic (AP-33) arriving at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 15 August 1942, with officers, troops and nurses embarked. Note the Marine sentry in the center foreground, and the ship's crowded decks.
    US Navy photo # NH 84008 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of the Honorable James V. Forrestal    		 Robert Hurst
    Republic 30k USS Republic (AP-33) underway in 1943, place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Republic 63k USS Republic (AP-33) underway date and location unknown. It can be clearly seen in this photo how, in Measure 12, the level of the Sea Blue was extended up to the top of the highest continuous deck; also, the generally darker appearance of the Sea Blue 5-S/ Ocean Grey 5-0 combination.
    (US National Archives photo # 80-G-15927, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 Robert Hurst
    USAHS Republic
    Republic 74k A halftone reproduction of a photo of USAHS Republic moored pierside, date and location unknown. Copied from the book 'Troopships of World War II', by Roland W. Charles.
    US Navy photo # NH 103414 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 Robert Hurst
    View the USS President Grant (ID# 3014) / Republic USAT / (AP-33) / USAHS
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
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