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USNS Marine Phoenix (T-AP-195)


International Radio Call Sign:
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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - National Defense Service Medal
Bottom Row - Korean Service Medal (8) - United Nations Service Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)


Marine Adder Class Transport:
  • Laid down, 16 December 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (C4-S-A3) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 2365) at Kaiser Shipbuilding Corp, Vancouver, WA.
  • Launched, 9 August 1945
  • Delivered to the Maritime Commission, 9 November 1945, for charter to Moore-McCormack Lines, for operations
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission in 1947 for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
  • Acquired by the Navy, 21 July 1950 and placed in service, by the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS Marine Phoenix (T-AP-195)
  • During the Korean War USNS Marine Phoenix participated in the following campaigns:

    Korean War Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    North Korean Aggression
    24 September to 29 October 1950
    Second Korean Winter
    30 to 31 December 1951
    17 to 23 February 1952
    10 to 11 April 1952
    First UN Counter Offensive
    8 to 10 February 1951
    Korean Defense Summer-Fall 1952
    20 to 21 August 1952
    2 to 3 October 1952
    20 to 21 and 23 to 24 November 1952
    Communist China Spring Offensive
    28 to 29 April 1951
    13 to 14 June 1951
    Third Korean Winter
    14 to 15 January 1953
    UN Summer-Fall Offensive
    7 to 10 August 1951
    20 to 21 September 1951
    11 to 13 November 1951
    Korean Summer-Fall 1953
    16 to 20 May 1953
    12 to 14 July 1953

  • Placed out of service, struck from the Naval Register, and transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Astoria, OR., 3 November 1958
  • Sold by MARAD for merchant service, 24 April 1967, to Mohawk Shipping Inc. for conversion to a cargo ship, renamed SS Mohawk
  • Final Disposition, scrapped at Taiwan in 1979
  • USNS Marine Phoenix earned eight battle stars for Korean service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 6,720 t.(lt) 10,210 t.(fl)
    Length 524'
    Beam 72'
    Draft 26'
    Speed 17 kts.
    Complement unknown
    Troop Accommodations 3,674
    Armament none
    Propulsion
    steam turbine
    single propeller, 13,750shp

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    USNS Marine Phoenix (T-AP-195)
    Marine Phoenix
    092219508
    278k
    Namesake
    Phoenix - In Ancient Greek folklore, a phoenix is a long-lived bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. Some legends say it dies in a show of flames and combustion, others that it simply dies and decomposes before being born again. (Wikipedia)
    Tommy Trampp
    Marine Phoenix 124k SS Marine Phoenix working cargo in 1950, location unknown.
    Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 92048. Courtesy of William H. Davis, 1981.
    Mike Green
    Marine Phoenix 88k USNS Marine Phoenix (T-AP-195) under way in south Elliott Bay at Seattle, WA., circa early 1950s. Richard Leonhardt
    Marine Phoenix
    092219510
    312k Ex-USNS Marine Phoenix (T-AP-195) arriving at an undetermined port, circa 1952. Note the Army tugs assisting her to her berth. David Wright
    Marine Phoenix 118k US Army and Republic of Korea Navy personnel crowd the rails as USNS Marine Phoenix (T-AP-195) arrives at Seattle, WA., after a voyage from the Far East. The ROK Navy men were brought to the US to crew several US Navy ships being transferred to Korea. Note metal life boat on davits in center, with grab rails on its hull. Photograph dated 18 January 1952.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-438390, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives
    US Naval History and Heritage Command
    Marine Phoenix
    092219511
    88k Repatriated Prisoner of War Captain, Frederick Smith is greeted by his father on his arrival at Fort Mason, CA., on board USNS Marine Phoenix (T-AP-195) 14 September 1953.
    U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 531432
    Robert Hurst
    General John Pope
    NH 104591
    87k The MSTS Reserve Fleet nest at the Navy Industrial Reserve Shipyard, Everett, WA., 25 June 1957, looking north. The ships, from right to left, are;
    USNS General John Pope (T-AP-110),
    USNS General M. C. Meigs (T-AP-116),
    USNS General William Weigel (T-AP-119),
    USNS General R. L. Howze (T-AP-134),
    USNS Marine Phoenix (T-AP-195),
    USNS Marine Adder (T-AP-193), and
    USNS Marine Lynx (T-AP-194).
    They are in MSTS Ready Reserve status. All were moved to the Maritime Administration reserve fleets at Olympia and Astoria in 1958. During World War II this site was occupied by the Everett Pacific Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., which built net laying ships, non-self propelled barracks ships, self-propelled covered lighters and small harbor tugs. Larger ships were repaired at the piers where the MSTS ships were later moored.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo #'s NH 104591 and NH 104592
    Robert Hurst
    General John Pope
    NH 104592
    86k
    General John Pope 79k The MSTS Reserve Fleet nest at the Navy Industrial Reserve Shipyard, Everett, WA., 25 June 1957, looking west. The ships, from front to rear, are;
    USNS General John Pope (T-AP-110),
    USNS General M. C. Meigs (T-AP-116),
    USNS General William Weigel (T-AP-119),
    USNS General R. L. Howze (T-AP-134),
    USNS Marine Phoenix (T-AP-195),
    USNS Marine Adder (T-AP-193), and
    USNS Marine Lynx (T-AP-194).
    They are in MSTS Ready Reserve status. All were moved to the Maritime Administration reserve fleets at Olympia and Astoria in 1958. During World War II this site was occupied by the Everett Pacific Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., which built net laying ships, non-self propelled barracks ships, self-propelled covered lighters and small harbor tugs. Larger ships were repaired at the piers where the MSTS ships were later moored.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 104594
    Robert Hurst
    General John Pope 90k The MSTS Reserve Fleet nest at the Navy Industrial Reserve Shipyard, Everett, WA., 25 June 1957, looking east. The ships, from back to front , are;
    USNS General John Pope (T-AP-110),
    USNS General M. C. Meigs (T-AP-116),
    USNS General William Weigel (T-AP-119),
    USNS General R. L. Howze (T-AP-134),
    USNS Marine Phoenix (T-AP-195),
    USNS Marine Adder (T-AP-193), and
    USNS Marine Lynx (T-AP-194).
    They are in MSTS Ready Reserve status. All were moved to the Maritime Administration reserve fleets at Olympia and Astoria in 1958. During World War II this site was occupied by the Everett Pacific Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., which built net laying ships, non-self propelled barracks ships, self-propelled covered lighters and small harbor tugs. Larger ships were repaired at the piers where the MSTS ships were later moored.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 104593
    Robert Hurst
    Marine Phoenix 125k USNS Marine Phoenix (T-AP-195) moored pierside, date and location unknown. Tommy Trampp
    Merchant Service
    Marine Phoenix
    092219506
    555k Ex-USNS Marine Phoenix (T-AP-195) moored pierside while in merchant service as Ogden steamship Co.'s freighter SS Mohawk, circa 1970's, location unknown. (The woman is unidentified) Tommy Trampp and
    Gerhard Muller-Debus
    Marine Phoenix
    092219512
    271k SS Mohawk in Ogden colors circa 1973, location unknown.. Gerhard Muller-Debus

    USNS Marine Phoenix (T-AP-195)
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

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