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List of ships of the United States Army
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Раздел 3062, Титул 10, Кодекс США, гласит, что армия включает в себя "сухопутные боевые и вспомогательные силы, а также авиацию и водный транспорт, органически связанные с ними". Возможности водного транспорта армии включают эксплуатацию стационарных портовых сооружений, строительство и развертывание временных портов, эксплуатацию различных логистических судов (включая транспортные суда, баржи, портовые и океанские буксиры), а также возможности очистки портов. Во время Второй мировой войны армия США эксплуатировала около 127 800 судов различных типов. К ним относились крупные десантные и грузовые транспортные суда, принадлежащие армии, суда, выделенные Управлением военного судоходства, суда, арендованные по договору бербоут-чартера и чартерам на время. Помимо транспортов, армейский флот включал специализированные типы судов, такие как корабли минно-торпедного вооружения, суда для обслуживания водных путей и портов, а также другие вспомогательные суда. Например, они использовались в масштабных логистических операциях в поддержку действий по всему миру. После войны армейский флот начал возвращаться к своему мирному времени и даже восстанавливать прежнюю окраску: серые корпуса, белые надстройки и буф-отделка, мачты и бумы с красными, белыми и синими полосами. Пример можно увидеть на фотографиях USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Может существовать некоторая путаница в точном определении "армейского корабля", поскольку многие корабли использовались армией во время Второй мировой войны, но никогда не были или лишь ненадолго (краткосрочный армейский чартер или чартер на рейс) частью армейского флота. Суда, принадлежащие армии, четко определены, хотя некоторые из них переходили между армией и флотом во время войны. Близкими к ним были суда, арендованные армией по договору бербоут-чартера, что означало, что арендовался только корпус, а армия несла ответственность за экипаж и все другие оперативные аспекты. Другие были выделены армии Администрацией военного судоходства на длительный срок, в результате чего они действовали как армейские транспортные и грузовые суда на протяжении большей части войны. Наиболее сложными являются суда, арендованные на короткий срок или по чартерам на время или на рейс. Некоторые из этих судов, приобретенные и эксплуатируемые Службой снабжения армии США в Юго-Западной части Тихого океана (USASOS SWPA), получили известность в военной истории благодаря смелым рейсам для снабжения отрезанных сил на Филиппинах из Австралии или уже разрушающейся Голландской Ост-Индии. Эта ситуация описана Мастерсоном на странице 324: 28 апреля генерал МакАртур доложил, что его флот состоит из двадцати восьми судов: двадцати одного судна KPM (большинство из которых еще не были доставлены); Dona Nati, SS Admiral Halstead, Coast Farmer и HMS, арендованных WSA; и Anhui, Yochow и Hanyang, предположительно арендованных британским Министерством военного транспорта (BMWT) для армии США, хотя официальной информации об их статусе не поступало. Некоторые специализированные суда армии были переоборудованы в корабли ВМС (USS) или вспомогательные суда, не введенные в эксплуатацию. Цифровые фотографии некоторых из этих судов, состоявших на вооружении армии, доступны в Командовании военно-морской истории и наследия. Другие были проданы в коммерческих целях или просто списаны. Армейское наследие гражданских экипажей и грузовых судов продолжилось в операционной модели MSTS и его "действующих" судов, не введенных в эксплуатацию, обозначенных как военно-морские корабли США (префикс "USNS"). Некоторые армейские суда, все еще укомплектованные гражданскими лицами армии, только что переведенными, внезапно выходили в море, не полностью приняв административные функции и цвета новой службы.
List of ships of the United States Army
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
В настоящее время действующие классы судов:
List of ships of the United States Army
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
* Runnymede – крупные десантные суда (35 единиц построено)
* MGen. Nathanael Greene – большие прибрежные буксиры (6 единиц построено)
* General Frank S. Besson – логистические суда обеспечения (8 единиц построено)
* LCM 8 – механизированные десантные суда (40 единиц построено)
List of ships of the United States Army
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Армия располагает флотом из примерно 132 судов, эксплуатируемых подразделениями Транспортного корпуса армии США. (Программа армейских судов управляется Командованием танковой машиностроения и вооружения армии США). Эти суда идентифицируются по следующему коду корпуса и типу:
List of ships of the United States Army
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
* DUKW – амфибийный грузовик с шестиколесным приводом
* JMLS – модульная плавучая система
* LACV 30 – плавучая платформа ACV 30 тонн
* LAMP H – тяжелая плавучая платформа
* LARC – плавучая платформа для снабжения и перевозки грузов (в версиях на 5, 15 и 60 тонн)
* TLV – логистическое судно театра военных действий
* RIB – быстровозводимая волноломная система
* BC – баржа, сухогрузная, несамоходная
* BCDK – комплект для переоборудования баржи с надстройкой
* BCL – баржа, сухогрузная, несамоходная, большая
* BD – плавучий кран
* BDL – плавучая платформа для выгрузки на пляж
* BG – баржа, для жидких грузов, несамоходная
* BK – баржа, сухогрузная, несамоходная
* BPL – баржа, причальная, несамоходная
* BR – баржа, холодильная, несамоходная
* CF – паром, мост
* FB – паром
* FD – плавучий док
* FMS – плавучая ремонтная мастерская, несамоходная
* FS – грузовое и снабженческое судно, большое
* J – лодка, вспомогательная
* LARC – плавучая платформа
* LCM – механизированное десантное судно
* LCU – десантное судно, вспомогательное
* LSV – логистическое судно обеспечения
* LT – буксир, большой, океанский
* MWT – модульный буксир
* ST – буксир, малый, портовый
* T – лодка, пассажирская и грузовая
* TCDF – временная плавучая выгрузочная платформа
* Y – судно, для жидких грузов
List of ships of the United States Army
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Инженерный корпус армии США располагает в общей сложности 11 дноуглубительными судами, разделенными на дноуглубители с приемным бункером и без него. В общей сложности корпус располагает примерно 2300 единиц плавучей техники, включая баржи, буксиры, плавучие краны, разведывательные суда, патрульные суда и дноуглубители.
List of ships of the United States Army
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Судно для ремонта самолетов
List of ships of the United States Army
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
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List of ships of the United States Army
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Классифицированная программа под названием "Operation Ivory Soap" была разработана Командованием авиационной технической службы для обслуживания самолетов вблизи линии фронта в Тихоокеанском театре военных действий. Шесть судов типа "Liberty" были переоборудованы в Пойнт-Клир, штат Алабама, недалеко от авиабазы Брукли, за пределами Мобиля, штат Алабама. Переоборудование началось весной 1944 года. Суда были оснащены станками, кранами и всем оборудованием, необходимым для машинного цеха, включая сварочное оборудование, оборудование для ремонта радиаторов, баков, деревообрабатывающие станки, чертежные, электрические, тканевые и лакокрасочные цеха, кондиционированные цеха для приборов и камер, радио, аккумуляторов, пропеллеров, шин и топливных элементов, вооружения и башен, брони, радаров, карбюраторов и турбонаддувов. Они были обеспечены большим запасом стали, листового металла, древесины, алюминия и других материалов для изготовления необходимых деталей. Каждое судно также было оснащено двумя моторными лодками и двумя DUKW или "утками", амфибийными грузовиками для перевозки деталей, слишком тяжелых для вертолетов. Два человека были обучены водолазами. Каждое судно было оснащено стальной палубой для поддержки вертолетных операций. Каждое судно было укомплектовано 344 солдатами, обученными морским операциям. Прозванные моряками, они носили морские комбинезоны на корабле и армейскую форму на суше. Суда были обозначены как Плавучие подразделения по ремонту самолетов (ARU) и действовали под управлением Армейской транспортной службы, все офицеры и рядовые которой были гражданскими моряками. Суда обеспечивали мобильную поддержку баз для B-29 Superfortress и P-51 Mustangs, базирующихся на Гуаме, Иво-Дзиме и Окинаве, начиная с декабря 1944 года. Они также были оснащены посадочными площадками для размещения четырех вертолетов R-4, создав первые морские корабли, оснащенные вертолетами, и обеспечивали медицинскую эвакуацию раненых в боях на Филиппинах и Окинаве.
List of ships of the United States Army
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
1-й ARU(F) генерал-майор Роберт Олдс (бывший SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2-й ARU(F) генерал-майор Герберт А. Дарг (бывший SS Rebecca Lukens)
3-й ARU(F) генерал-майор Уолтер Р. Уивер (бывший SS Thomas LeValley)
4-й ARU(F) бригадный генерал Аса Н. Дункан (бывший SS Richard O'Brien)
5-й ARU(F) бригадный генерал Клинтон В. Рассел (бывший SS Robert W. Bingham)
6-й ARU(F) бригадный генерал Альфред Дж. Лайон (бывший SS Nathaniel Scudder)
List of ships of the United States Army
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Вспомогательное судно для ремонта самолетов
List of ships of the United States Army
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Проект 427: Судно снабжения, ремонта самолетов, дизельное, стальное, 180 футов, 573 тонны, стальные суда, построенные компанией Higgins;
List of ships of the United States Army
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
FS 204 полковник Клиффорд П. Брэдли
FS 205 полковник Ричард Э. Кобб
FS 206 полковник…
List of ships of the United States Army
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Section 3062, Title 10, U. S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein." Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities. During World War II, the U. S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft. For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth. Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:
On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty eight vessels—the twenty one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The SS Admiral Halstead, the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U. S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non commissioned ships designated as U. S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors. Currently active ship classes
Runnymede class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM 8 Landing Craft Mechanized (40 built)
The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U. S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;
DUKW – Six wheel drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV 30 – Lighter ACV 30 ton
LAMP H – Lighter, Amphibian Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60 ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo
The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Aircraft Repair Ship
Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)
A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo super charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks," amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B 29 Superfortress and P 51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R 4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. 1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex SS Thomas LeValley)
4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)
Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship
Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180 foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;
FS 204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS 205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS 206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS 207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS 208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS 209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS 210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS 211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS 212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS 213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS 214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS 215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS 216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS 217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as Palm Beach)
FS 218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS 219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS 220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS 221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler
Seacraft Repair Ship
Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from 350 feet (107 m) to 390 feet (119 m) in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at 202 feet (62 m) was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into 80 feet (24 m) of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U. S. Coast Guard crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":
USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.
Другие ремонтные сосуды
Koondooloo 524 GRT, 191.7 футов (58 м) X 35.7 футов (11 м) X 14.8 футов (5 м): приобретен для постоянного местного флота в районе Юго-Западной части Тихого океана, секции малых судов, как двухконцевой автомобильный паром, построенный в Шотландии в 1924 году для Sydney Ferries Limited и переоборудованный в 1937 году в экскурсионный корабль с танцполом и вместимостью 1700 пассажиров. Коундолу (S 181) был переоборудован армией с угля на нефть и оснащен 30-тонным краном. Он использовался как рабочее судно в Новой Гвинее для обслуживания десантной техники и кораблей. В 1951 году вновь переоборудован в автомобильный паром и затонул во время буксировки на Филиппины в 1972 году. "Половина Руфуса" – это носовая часть корабля типа "Либерти", который сел на мель на острове Моретон, Квинсленд, Австралия. Корабль разломился на две части, и носовая часть была спасена Советом по морскому спасению Содружества, затем принята на вооружение секцией малых кораблей армии США и оснащена вертикальным котлом для выработки энергии, машинным цехом для ремонта судов, а также бункерами для угля и мазута для дозаправки. Получив номер S 129 и название "Половина Руфуса", спасенная носовая часть была отбуксирована в залив Милне, прибыв 21 июня 1944 года, а затем в Финшхафен, где в апреле 1945 года ремонтное оборудование было перегружено на баржу, а носовая часть использовалась как угольный баркас.
Koondooloo 524 grt, 191.7 feet (58 m) X 35.7 feet (11 m) X 14.8 feet (5 m): Acquired for Southwest Pacific Area permanent local fleet, Small Ship Section, a double ended vehicular ferry built in Scotland in 1924 for Sydney Ferries Limited and converted in 1937 into a show/excursion boat with dance floor and 1,700 passenger capacity. Converted by the Army from coal to oil and fitted with a 30 ton boom, Koondooloo (S 181) was used as a workboat in New Guinea servicing amphibious vehicles and vessels. Reconverted to a vehicular ferry 1951 and wrecked while under tow to Philippines in 1972. "Half Rufus" was the bow of the Liberty ship which ran aground on Moreton Island, Queensland, Australia. The ship had broken in two with the bow salvaged by the Commonwealth Marine Salvage Board, taken over by the U. S. Army Small Ships Section and equipped with vertical boiler for power, a machine shop used for repairing vessels and bunkers for coal and fuel oil for refueling them. Given the number S 129 and dubbed "Half Rufus" the salvaged bow was towed to Milne Bay, arriving 21 June 1944, and then to Finschhafen where repair equipment was transferred to a barge in April 1945 and the bow section then used as a coal hulk.
Восстановление судна
Одиннадцать таких кораблей были построены для Военно-воздушных сил Армии США (U.S. Army Air Corps/Army Air Forces) в конце 1942 года и до середины 1943 года. Официальное обозначение – "Проект № 210, 150-футовое стальное дизельное судно для подъема воздушных судов", иногда в более поздних источниках называемое "судно для подъема самолетов". Название судна оформлялось как "Армия США" над "H. A. # НАЗВАНИЕ", что подтверждается моделью судостроителя. Размеры составляли 158 футов 3 дюйма общей длины (LOA) × 32 фута ширины (по ватерлинии) × 8 футов осадки, приводимые в движение двумя дизельными двигателями мощностью 300 л.с. Судно было оснащено 30-тонным грузовым краном-стрелой повышенной грузоподъемности, а также обычными грузовыми стрелами и имело грузоподъемность 500 тонн. Эти суда в основном использовались как суда снабжения, способные при необходимости поднимать самолеты.
Eleven of these small ships were built for the U. S. Army Air Corps/Army Air Forces in late 1942 through mid 1943. The official designation was "Design No. 210, 150 Foot Steel Diesel Retrieving Vessel", sometimes termed "Aircraft Retrieving Vessel" in later references. Name format was "U. S. Army" over "H. A.# NAME" as indicated by a builder's model. Dimensions were 158' 3" LOA × 32' beam (moulded) at deck × 8' draft powered by two 300 hp diesels, and was equipped with a 30 ton jumbo lift boom along with regular cargo booms and had a cargo capacity of 500 measurement tons. These vessels were primarily used as supply ships, that could retrieve aircraft if needed. H. A. 2 Morrow
H. A. 3 Van Nostrand
H. A. 4 Miller
H. A. 5 Beck
H. A. 6 Colgan
H. A. 7 Chandler
H. A. 8 Bane
H. A. 9 Bower
H. A. 10 Stone
H. A. 11 (unknown)
H. A. 12 (unknown)
H. A. 3 Van Nostrand
H. A. 4 Miller
H. A. 5 Beck
H. A. 6 Colgan
H. A. 7 Chandler
H. A. 8 Bane
H. A. 9 Bower
H. A. 10 Stone
H. A. 11 (unknown)
H. A. 12 (unknown)
H. A. 2 Морроу
H. A. 3 Ван Ностранд
H. A. 4 Миллер
H. A. 5 Бек
H. A. 6 Колган
H. A. 7 Чендлер
H. A. 8 Бэйн
H. A. 9 Боуэр
H. A. 10 Стоун
H. A. 11 (неизвестно)
H. A. 12 (неизвестно)
Eleven of these small ships were built for the U. S. Army Air Corps/Army Air Forces in late 1942 through mid 1943. The official designation was "Design No. 210, 150 Foot Steel Diesel Retrieving Vessel", sometimes termed "Aircraft Retrieving Vessel" in later references. Name format was "U. S. Army" over "H. A.# NAME" as indicated by a builder's model. Dimensions were 158' 3" LOA × 32' beam (moulded) at deck × 8' draft powered by two 300 hp diesels, and was equipped with a 30 ton jumbo lift boom along with regular cargo booms and had a cargo capacity of 500 measurement tons. These vessels were primarily used as supply ships, that could retrieve aircraft if needed. H. A. 2 Morrow
H. A. 3 Van Nostrand
H. A. 4 Miller
H. A. 5 Beck
H. A. 6 Colgan
H. A. 7 Chandler
H. A. 8 Bane
H. A. 9 Bower
H. A. 10 Stone
H. A. 11 (unknown)
H. A. 12 (unknown)
H. A. 3 Van Nostrand
H. A. 4 Miller
H. A. 5 Beck
H. A. 6 Colgan
H. A. 7 Chandler
H. A. 8 Bane
H. A. 9 Bower
H. A. 10 Stone
H. A. 11 (unknown)
H. A. 12 (unknown)
G. Продолжение
Примечание: Новые, большие транспортные суда Второй мировой войны, названные в честь генералов, являлись вариантом P2 S2 R2 конструкции транспортного судна P2, а не указывали на принадлежность к роду войск. Все варианты "Адмирал", поступившие на вооружение, после войны были переданы армии и переименованы в честь генералов. Армия также присваивала имена генералов ряду своих кораблей, не относящихся к типу P2, многие из которых были построены до войны.
Note: The newer, large transports of WW II named for generals were the P2 S2 R2 variant of the P2 transport design, not an indicator of service affiliation. All of the "Admiral" variants that were put into service were transferred to the Army after the war and renamed for generals. The Army did name a number of its non P2 type ships, many pre war, after generals.
Буксиры
Армейские буксиры появились ещё во время Гражданской войны в США, начиная с винтового буксира «Террор» 1862 года постройки. Буксиры времён Второй мировой войны делились на два основных класса, хотя эти классы не были чётко определены, и различия особенно заметны в коммерческих судах, принятых на вооружение в начале войны. Морские буксиры длиной 92–100 футов и более обозначались как Large Tug (LT). Буксиры, работавшие в портах, классифицировались как Small Tug (ST). Транспортный корпус установил, что к концу войны он эксплуатировал 746 буксиров типов LT/ST. Помимо буксиров, построенных по армейским проектам, на вооружение армии было принято большое количество разнообразных коммерческих буксиров, а также армейские буксиры довоенной постройки начала 1900-х годов. Кроме того, существовало множество небольших буксирных судов, насчитывающих тысячи единиц, под названием моторные буксировочные катера (MTL), иногда сопоставимые по длине с ST, и морские тракторы длиной 40 футов и менее, некоторые из которых носили яркое название «Морские мулы» с размерами 40 x 13 x 8 футов и двумя бензиновыми двигателями Chrysler. Все они обозначались как U. S. Army (LT/ST #). В рамках строительной программы в Австралии был построен ряд буксиров для Юго-Западной Тихоокеанской зоны как типа LT, так и типа ST. Это были армейские буксиры, но они не входили в центральный реестр буксиров, построенных в США. Армия приобретала коммерческие суда или имела на вооружении буксиры в начале Второй мировой войны, до того как были разработаны стандартизированные проекты, отвечающие требованиям, которые по размеру соответствовали LT, сохраняли коммерческие названия и не имели номеров LT. При строительстве буксиров типа LT во время Второй мировой войны не использовались номера, превышающие 935.
Army tugs were seen as far back as the American Civil War with the 1862 screw tug Terror. World War II era tugs came in two general classifications, though those were not rigid and variances may particularly be seen in commercial vessels taken in early during the war. Seagoing tugs, 92' 100' or greater were designated Large Tug (LT). Harbor tugs were Small Tugs (ST). The Transportation Corps determined that at war's end it was operating 746 tugs of the LT/ST types. A large number of highly varied commercial tugs were taken into Army service above those constructed to Army designs and Army tugs of prewar design dating to the early 1900s. In addition to these there were a variety of small towing craft, numbering in thousands, termed motor towing launches (MTL), sometimes overlapping the STs in length, and marine tractors of 40'and less length, some with the colorful name of "Sea Mules" with dimensions of 40 x 13 x 8 and two Chrysler gasoline engines. All were simply U. S. Army (LT/ST #). A construction program in Australia built a number of tugs for the Southwest Pacific Area in both LT and ST size. They were U. S. Army tugs, but not carried in the same central listing as the U. S. built tugs. The Army acquired commercial vessels or had in its inventory tugs early during WWII, before standardized design construction met requirements, that were LT in size which retained commercial names and did not have LT numbers. WWII LT construction did not use numbers greater than 935
Вторая мировая война пронумерованный Большой буксир (LT)
Армия США майор Этель А. Роббинс (Летчик 1)
Армия США майор Ральф Богл (Летчик 3)
Армия США "Летчик 60"
Армия США "Летчик 62"
Армия США "Летчик 132"
Армия США Летчик 154 "Кит Э. Селдерс"
Армия США "Летчик 156"
Армия США Летчик 159 "Джон О'Рейли"
Армия США "Летчик 187"
Армия США Летчик 214 "Артур А. Таннер"
Армия США "Летчик 221"
Армия США "Летчик 239"
Армия США "Летчик 371"
Армия США "Летчик 376"
Армия США "Летчик 377"
Армия США "Летчик 389"
Армия США "Летчик 452"
Армия США "Летчик 455"
Армия США "Летчик 532"
Армия США Летчик 535
Армия США "Летчик 536"
Армия США "Летчик 646"
Армия США "Летчик 784"
Армия США Летчик 814
Армия США "Летчик 815"
Армия США "Летчик 820"
Армия США "Летчик 821"
U. S. Army MAJ Ethel A. Robbins (LT 1)
U. S. Army Maj MAJ Ralph Bogle (LT 3)
U. S. Army "LT 60"
U. S. Army "LT 62"
U. S. Army "LT 132"
U. S. Army LT 154 "Keith E. Selders"
U. S. Army "LT 156"
U. S. Army LT 159 "John O'Reilly"
U. S. Army "LT 187"
U. S. Army LT 214 "Arthur A. Tanner"
U. S. Army "LT 221"
U. S. Army "LT 239"
U. S. Army "LT 371"
U. S. Army "LT 376"
U. S. Army "LT 377"
U. S. Army "LT 389"
U. S. Army "LT 452"
U. S. Army "LT 455"
U. S. Army "LT 532"
U. S. Army LT 535
U. S. Army "LT 536"
U. S. Army "LT 646"
U. S. Army "LT 784"
U. S. Army LT 814
U. S. Army "LT 815"
U. S. Army "LT 820"
U. S. Army "LT 821"
U. S. Army Maj MAJ Ralph Bogle (LT 3)
U. S. Army "LT 60"
U. S. Army "LT 62"
U. S. Army "LT 132"
U. S. Army LT 154 "Keith E. Selders"
U. S. Army "LT 156"
U. S. Army LT 159 "John O'Reilly"
U. S. Army "LT 187"
U. S. Army LT 214 "Arthur A. Tanner"
U. S. Army "LT 221"
U. S. Army "LT 239"
U. S. Army "LT 371"
U. S. Army "LT 376"
U. S. Army "LT 377"
U. S. Army "LT 389"
U. S. Army "LT 452"
U. S. Army "LT 455"
U. S. Army "LT 532"
U. S. Army LT 535
U. S. Army "LT 536"
U. S. Army "LT 646"
U. S. Army "LT 784"
U. S. Army LT 814
U. S. Army "LT 815"
U. S. Army "LT 820"
U. S. Army "LT 821"
Послевоенный номерный большой буксир (LT)
Армия США "ЛТ 1964"
Армия США "ЛТ 2075"
Армия США "ЛТ 2082"
Армия США полковник Альберт Х. Баркли
U. S. Army "LT 1964"
U. S. Army "LT 2075"
U. S. Army "LT 2082"
U. S. Army Col. Albert H. Barkley
U. S. Army "LT 2075"
U. S. Army "LT 2082"
U. S. Army Col. Albert H. Barkley
Малый буксир (ST)
Армия США "ST 10"
Армия США "ST 35"
Армия США "ST 39"
Армия США "ST 165"
Армия США "ST 488"
Армия США "ST 511"
Армия США "ST 539"
Армия США "ST 672"
Армия США "ST 674"
Армия США "ST 675"
Армия США "ST 679"
Армия США "ST 719"
Армия США "ST 720"
Армия США "ST 725"
Армия США "ST 731"
U. S. Army "ST 10"
U. S. Army "ST 35"
U. S. Army "ST 39"
U. S. Army "ST 165"
U. S. Army "ST 488"
U. S. Army "ST 511"
U. S. Army "ST 539"
U. S. Army "ST 672"
U. S. Army "ST 674"
U. S. Army "ST 675"
U. S. Army "ST 679"
U. S. Army "ST 719"
U. S. Army "ST 720"
U. S. Army "ST 725"
U. S. Army "ST 731"
U. S. Army "ST 35"
U. S. Army "ST 39"
U. S. Army "ST 165"
U. S. Army "ST 488"
U. S. Army "ST 511"
U. S. Army "ST 539"
U. S. Army "ST 672"
U. S. Army "ST 674"
U. S. Army "ST 675"
U. S. Army "ST 679"
U. S. Army "ST 719"
U. S. Army "ST 720"
U. S. Army "ST 725"
U. S. Army "ST 731"