USS General T. H. Bliss (AP-131)

USS General T. H. Bliss (AP-131)

USS "General T. H. Bliss" (AP-131) was a sclass|General G. O. Squier|transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. She was named in honor of U.S. Army general Tasker Howard Bliss. Decommissioned in 1946, she was sold privately in 1964 and renamed SS "Seamar", and was scrapped in 1979.

Operational history

"General T. H. Bliss" was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract 22 May 1942 by Kaiser Co., Inc., Yard 3, Richmond, California; launched 19 December 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Eleanor Bliss Knopf; acquired by the Navy 3 November 1943; and commissioned 24 February 1944, Captain Burton Davis in command.

After shakedown, "General T. H. Bliss" embarked more than 3,600 sailors and marines, sailed from San Francisco 27 March 1944 for New Caledonia, and subsequently returned to San Francisco 1 May with veterans embarked at Efate and Espiritu Santo. Underway again 10 May, she carried 3,500 soldiers to Oro Bay, New Guinea, before sailing via the Panama Canal to New York, where she put in 4 July with over 2,000 men and patients embarked at Balboa.

From 28 July 1944 to 4 September 1945, "General T. H. Bliss" made 11, round-trip transatlantic, troop-carrying voyages (2 from Newport, 3 from Boston, and 6 from New York) to ports in the United Kingdom (Avonmouth, Plymouth, and Southhampton); France (Marseilles and Le Havre); Italy (Naples); and North Africa (Oran). She sailed from Boston 11 September 1945 for Karachi, India, on her first "Magic-Carpet" voyage and returned to New York 23 October carrying veterans of the Pacific fiighting. Following a similar voyage from New York to Calcutta and back during November and December, she made a round-the-world voyage from New York eastward to Calcutta and thence via Guam to San Francisco, where she arrived 15 March 1946. Departing San Francisco 5 April, she carried occupation troops to Yokohama, Japan; then steamed back to the United States, arriving Seattle 6 May.

"General T. H. Bliss" decommissioned at Seattle 28 June, was returned to the WSA 2 July, and was placed inthe National Defense Reserve Fleet at Olympia, Washington.

She was sold to Bethlehem Steel Corp. of Wilmington, Delaware in April 1964 and renamed "Seamar". She was scrapped in 1979.

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ee also

*, a World War II transport ship sunk 13 November 1942 by "U-130" off the coast of Morocco.

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