USS Roque (AG-137)

USS "Roque" (AG-137/AKL-8) was a "Camano"-class cargo ship constructed for the U.S. Army as USAT "FS-347" shortly before the end of World War II and later acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1947. She was configured as a transport and cargo ship and was assigned to serve the World War II Trust Territories in the Pacific Ocean.

Constructed at Kewanee, Wisconsin

"Roque", built in 1944 by the Kewaunee Ship Building Co., Kewaunee, Wisconsin, for the U.S. Army as freight supply ship "FS-347", was acquired by the Navy at Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, 21 February 1947; renamed and reclassified "Roque" (AG-137) on 3 April 1947; and commissioned at Guam, 2 May 1947.

Pacific Trust Territory services

On 11 June she relieved "LSM-437" at Guam. She subsequently steamed on Pacific Ocean logistic and surveillance runs visiting various ports in the Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Caroline Islands, the Philippines, the Bonin Islands, the Admiralty Islands, and the Hawaiian Islands.

Roque was reclassified AKL-8 on 31 March 1949.

Transfer to the Interior Department

Completing her 4-year naval career, she was decommissioned at Guam 23 July 1951 and loaned to the U.S. Department of the Interior, then struck from the Navy list 29 January 1952 and transferred to the U.S. Department of the Interior for service in the Pacific Trust Territories.

Her subsequent fate is not known.

See also

* United States Navy
* World War II

References

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* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/49/49137.htm NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive - FS-347 - AG-137 / AKL-8 Roque]