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 USS Admiral H. T. Mayo (AP-125)
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Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo USN* and Congressman Thomas S. Butler (center)
With a U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant (perhaps LT. Fegan), on board USS Siboney (ID # 2999) with the 13th Regiment returning to the U.S. from France, 8 August 1919.
US Navy photo # NH 52983 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, Courtesy of Major Fegan, USMC, 1928. |
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"USS Admiral H.T. Mayo goes down the ways at 9:00 A.M. Sunday, Nov. 26, 1944, at the Alameda Shipyard at Bethlehem Alameda Shipyard, Inc.
Sponsor of the vessel was Mrs. George Mayo, wife of Lieut. Colonel George Mayo, who is a son of Admiral Mayo in whose honor the ship was named. This is the second vessel named in honor of Admiral Mayo, the first being the destroyer U.S.S. Mayo, built in 1940 at Bethlehem's Quincy, Mass. shipyard.
The U.S.S. Mayo is a troop transport of 22,380 deadweight tons and 610 feet length rated among the largest commercial vessels built on the Pacific Coast. She is the sixth ship of its kind to be launched at this yard within a year. Four more similar vessels are still to be launched.
Designed to be converted to passenger service after the war, the speed, size and appointments when converted will entitle the ship to be rated as a top-flight luxury liner."
Photo and caption from the archives of the San Francisco Examiner. |
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A halftone reproduction of a photograph of USS Admiral H.T. Mayo (AP-125) circa 1945, probably in San Francisco Bay, CA. Copied from the book "Troopships of World War 11", By Roland W. Charles.
US Navy photo # NH 104637 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. |
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USS Admiral H.T. Mayo (AP-125) at anchor, 1945, location unknown.
US Navy photo. |
Courtesy, Chuck Ulrich, coordinator/historian AP Transport Group |
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USS Admiral H.T. Mayo (AP-125) coming alongside Pier 15 at Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA. between September 1945 and January 1946 bringing servicemen home from the western Pacific. Many of her approximately 5,000 passengers are topsides watching her arrival. Note the two 5"/38 guns on her stern; she had two more forward.
US Navy photo # NH 98759, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, donation of BM1 Robert G. Tippins, USN Ret., 2003. |
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 USAT General Nelson M. Walker
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USAT General Nelson M. Walker underway, circa 1947, location unknown.
US Navy photo # NH 57742 |
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USAT General Nelson M. Walker, date and location unknown. |
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USAT General Nelson M. Walker, date and location unknown. |
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USNS General Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125)
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USNS General Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125) shipboard newspaper "Walker International" souvenir edition, Eastbound, 18 July 1952. |
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USNS General Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125) in San Francisco Bay, 9 January 1953 with an Army tug alongside.
US Navy photo # NH 103683 from the Military Sealift Command collection at the US Naval Historical Center. |
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USNS General Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125) at anchor in Inchon, harbor, South Korea with LSU-684 alongside. LSU-684 was ferrying ex-prisoners of the Communists out to the ship. The General Nelson M. Walker will be the first ship to head for home from Korea with former prisoners as passengers.
AP wirephoto dated 11 August 1952. |
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USNS General Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125) entering San Francisco Bay, 23 August 1953 after passing under the Golden Gate Bridge. She is transporting repatriated prisoners of war back from Korea.
US Navy photo # NH 103686 by PH3 W.F. Stevens, USN, from the Military Sealift Command collection at the US Naval Historical Center. |
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USN General Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125) underway circa the 1950s, probably in the San Francisco Bay area. Note the numerous passengers on deck
US Navy photo # NH 103684, from the Military Sealift Command collection at the US Naval Historical Center. |
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USNS General Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125) underway during the 1950s.
US Navy photo # NH 103685, from the Military Sealift Command collection at the US Naval Historical Center. |
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USNS General Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125) with 2200 troops aboard, passes through Gaillard Cut of the Panama Canal, the largest troop movement through the waterway since the end of the Korean War. En-route to Bremerhaven, Germany, the movement is part of the Army's "Operation Gyroscope". The troops were loaded about the ship from lighters in Monterey Bay near Fort Ord in an experiment to test the feasibility of off-shore loading other than from an established US Port.
Official US Army photo, from United Press.Telephoto |
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USN General Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125) being assisted alongside a pier by the tug Cynthia Moran. The photograph, taken by the Moran Towing and Transportation Co., Inc., of New York City, is back stamped 12 July 1958.
US Navy photo # NH 103688, from the Military Sealift Command collection at the US Naval Historical Center. |
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USNS General Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125) at Vung Tao Anchorage, Vietnam, 16 April 1967.
US Navy photo # USN 1124119 by PH1 J.T. Luscan USN |
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USNS General Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125) preparing to disembark troops at Vung Tao Anchorage, Vietnam, 16 April 1967. In the left background a floating crane is off loading LCU landing craft and other items from a cargo ship.
US Navy photo # NH 103687 by PH1 J.T. Luscan USN, from the Military Sealift Command collection at the US Naval Historical Center. |
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