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Photo #  NH 102230:  SS Dashing Wave, photographed circa 1943-1946.


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Dashing Wave (American Freighter and Troop Transport, 1943-1970).
Later renamed Choctaw

Dashing Wave, a 6221 gross ton C2-S-B1 type cargo ship, was built at Oakland, California, in 1943 for the U.S. Maritime Commission. Completed in February 1943 and converted to a troop transport soon afterwards, she was operated during World War II by the Mississippi Shipping Company, transporting service personnel between the U.S. West Coast and bases in Hawaii and the central Pacific. Later in the War she voyaged further west, reaching Okinawa and the Philippines. She continued her trans-Pacific service on behalf of the U.S. Army during the early post-War era, from late August 1945 until February 1946.

Placed in the Maritime Commision's Olympia, Washington, Reserve Fleet in July 1946, Dashing Wave was transferred to the American Mail Line, Ltd., in August of that year but was again laid up in October, this time at Suisun Bay, California. In August 1948 she was taken over by the Waterman Steamship Company, which purchased her three months later and changed her name to Choctaw. Waterman owned the ship from then until May 1969, and again briefly in August 1970. In that month she was sold to a Taiwanese firm for scrapping.

This page features the only view we have of the freighter/troop transport Dashing Wave, which was later renamed Choctaw.


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Photo #: NH 102230

SS Dashing Wave
(U.S. Merchant Ship, 1943)

Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken circa 1943-1946, while Dashing Wave was serving as a War Shipping Administration troop transport.
Copied from "Troopships of World War II", by Roland W. Charles, page 178.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 126KB; 740 x 380 pixels

 


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