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 USS Admiral H. T. Mayo (AP-125)
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Henry Thomas Mayo (8 December 1856 – 23 February 1937) was an admiral of the United States Navy.
Mayo was born in Burlington, Vermont, 8 December 1856. Upon
graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1876 he experienced a variety of naval duties including coastal survey. During the Spanish–American War he served in
the gunboat USS Bennington off the west coast of North America.
In 1907 he was in command of the cruiser USS Albany as she cruised in Central American waters protecting United States citizens and interests as
part of the Special Service Squadron.
Appointed rear admiral in 1913, he commanded the naval squadron involved in the Tampico incident of 9 April 1914. His demands for vindication of national honor
further accentuated the tense relations with Mexico.
Promoted to vice admiral in June 1915, as the new Commander in Chief, Atlantic Fleet, he received the rank of admiral 19 June 1916. For his organization and support
of World War I U.S. Naval Forces both in American and European waters, he was awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal and various foreign decorations. He evidenced
foresight in urging the postwar development of fleet aviation.
Admiral Mayo retired 28 February 1921, and, for four years, served as Governor of the Philadelphia Naval Home. He retained his commission as an admiral by a 1930 Act of Congress. He died at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 23 February 1937. |
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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 Admiral H.T. Mayo arriving at San Francisco CA. US Army Port Of Embarkation, Fort Mason in 1946. |
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USAT Admiral H.T. Mayo entering San Francisco Bay, circa 1946. Note the Marin County coast line in the upper portion of the photo and
the cable on the right lower corner which is part of the Golden Gate Bridge, circa 1946.
US Navy History and Command photo #'s NH 57742 and NH 57742 (cropped) |
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USAT General Nelson M. Walker
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USAT General Nelson M. Walker photographed, circa 1949, during the brief interval between her late 1948 conversion and her transfer to the
Navy in early 1950. This ship, the last of her class to be upgraded, received only a basic safety at sea conversion and a partial conversion to a dependents carrier in
the second half of 1948. Her complement of lifeboats was increased, but she retained her original broken hull profile forward with its gap between the bridge and the
forecastle as well as her original bridge and her original rig.
Photo courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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USAT General Nelson M. Walker underway, circa 1950, location unknown. |
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USAT General Nelson M. Walker, date and location unknown. |
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USAT General Nelson M. Walker transported
General MacArthur's 1950 Chrysler Crown Imperial Limousine to Japan in November 1950. |
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USNS General Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125)
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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) 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) 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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USNS 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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A blank greeting card of USNS General Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125) underway, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo |
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USNS General Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125) underway during the 1950s.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 103685, from the Military Sealift Command collection at US Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USNS General Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125) passing under the Golden Gate Bridge as she enters San Francisco Bay, circa 1950s. |
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USNS General Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125) moored pierside, location unknown, circa 1950s. |
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USNS General Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125) moored pierside, circa 1950s, location possibly Japan or Okinawa. |
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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 aboard 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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USNS 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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Aerial view of Unit 7 of the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall, VA., 28 January 1999.
From bottom to top;
unidentified,
Santa Cruz
Vulcan (AR-5),
Redstone (T-AGM-20),
2 unidentified APs,
GEN. Nelson M. Walter (T-AP-125),
GEN. Wm. O. Darby (IX-510),
Waccamaw (T-AO-109),
Canisteo (AO-99),
Caloosahatchee (AO-98),
Mississinewa (T-AO-144),
Pawcatuck (T-AO-108),
Truckee (T-AO-147),
Neosho (T-AO-143),
Benjamin Isherwood (T-AO-191) and
Henry Eckford (T-AO-192). These two oilers were both lay-berthed incomplete. |
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New York Times - Ex-USNS General Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125) in a scrapyard at Brownsville, Tx. Art Beltrone found and rescued a canvas
signed “Johnny from New York." But who was Johnny?
Credit Lee Beltrone
The “Johnny from New York" canvas is part of an exhibition on the Vietnam War at the New-York Historical Society in Manhattan.
Credit Jeenah Moon for The New York Times
"A Hunt for the Artist of a Vietnam-Era Ode to New York" |
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