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NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive

Patches contributed by Russ Padden

USAT / AP-27 / APA-14 Hunter Liggett

Flag Hoist/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 - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive - 8 NOV 43) - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3) - World War II Victory Medal

USS Hunter Liggett ex US Army Transport manned by the US Coast Guard during World War II

Harris Class Transport:

Laid down in 1921, as SS Palmetto State under a US Shipping Board (USSB) contract at by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp, Sparrow Point, MD.

Entered commercial service, 25 February 1922

Renamed SS Pan American (date unknown)

Acquired by the War Department in February 1939 for conversion to a troopship

Commissioned USAT Hunter Liggett (date unknown)

Transferred to the US Navy, 27 May 1941

Converted to a Naval Transport at Brooklyn Navy Yard

Commissioned USS Hunter Liggett (AP-27), 9 June 1941, CAPT. L. W. Perkins, USCG, commanding

Reclassified Amphibious Attack Transport (APA-14), 1 February 1943

During WWII Hunter Liggett was assigned first to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the:

**Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Guadalcanal-Tulagi landings 7 August 1943	Treasury-Bougainville operation Occupation and defense of Cape Torokina, 1 to 8 November 1943
Capture and defense of Guadalcanal August 1942 to February 1943	.

Decommissioned, 18 March 1946, at Olympia, WA.

Returned to the War Department

Returned, 6 September 1946, to the Maritime Commission for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet Olympia, WA.

Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, MD., 30 January 1948

Hunter Liggett received three battle stars for World War II service

Specifications:
Displacement 13,529 t.(lt) 21,900 t.(fl)
Length 535'
Beam 72'
Draft 31' 3"
Speed 15 kts.
Complement 52 Officers 673 Enlisted
Troop Capacity 107 Officers 1417 Enlisted
Cargo Capacity 140,000 cu. ft., 1,900 t.
Armament

four single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts

two twin 40mm AA gun mounts

two quad 1.1" AA gun mounts

fifteen single 20mm AA gun mounts
Propulsion 8 Yarrow header-type boilers, 2 Curtis type turbines, twin shafts, design shaft horsepower 12,000

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USAT Hunter Liggett
	107k	*USAT Hunter Liggett* underway, date and place unknown.	Richard Leonhardt
	100k	*USAT Hunter Liggett, circa 3 February 1941, while taking part in fleet landing exercises in the Caribbean. Note Higgens-type landing craft on her deck, just aft of the midships superstructure, and U.S. flag painted on her hull side as a neutrality marking. US National Archives photo # 80-G-466193*, a US Navy photo, now in the collections of the US National Archives.	US Naval Historical Center
	54k	*USAT Hunter Liggett*, at Panama, circa 1939-40	M/Sgt. M.L. McCormick, USAF Ret
USS Hunter Liggett (AP-27)
	62k	Hunter Liggett (AP-27), circa 1942. She is wearing camouflage Measure 12R. US Navy photo # NH 86976, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1978.	US Naval Historical Center
USS Hunter Liggett (APA-14)
	109k	Hunter Liggett (APA-14), conducting amphibious operations, circa 1943-44. US National Archives photo # 26-G-06-17-44(1), from the US Coast Guard Collection in the US National Archives.	US Naval Historical Center
	87k	Hunter Liggett (APA-14), at anchor circa 1943-45 US National Archives photo # 26-G-3337, from the US Coast Guard Collection in the US National Archives.	US Naval Historical Center
	95k	Broadside view of Hunter Liggett (APA-14) of San Francisco, 29 March 1944. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 2036.	Darryl Baker
	79k	Stern view of Hunter Liggett (APA-14) of San Francisco, 29 March 1944. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 2039.	Darryl Baker
	83k	Bows on view of Hunter Liggett (APA-14) of San Francisco, 29 March 1944. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 2040.	Darryl Baker
	97k	Aft plan view of Hunter Liggett (APA-14) at San Francisco, 1 April 1944. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 2087.	Darryl Baker
	94k	Forward plan view of Hunter Liggett (APA-14) at San Francisco, 1 April 1944. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 2088.	Darryl Baker
	70k	Hunter Liggett (APA-14), circa 1945-46. The gun at her bow has been removed, indicating that the view was taken after the end of World War II. US Navy photo # NH 78567, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
	60k	Hunter Liggett (APA-14) during amphibious operations, date and place unknown. US National Archives photo # Photo No. 26-G-1781 a US Coast Guard photo from the Office of the US Coast Guard Historian.	Mike Green