SS Sea Sturgeon was a civil registry troopship converted from a standard C3 type freighter. Built at San Francisco, California, in 1944, she made her first round-trip voyage from the West Coast to the Southern Pacific war zone during July-December 1944. Subsequently she made a number of trips from Hawaii to the Central and Western Pacific and, following the August 1945 conclusion of World War II fighting, she also visited Japan. She returned to the U.S. West Coast in December 1945 and left there in early February 1946 for a long passage, via the Panama Canal, to England and France. Sea Sturgeon arrived at New York in March 1946 and was laid up in the James River, Virginia, in May of that year. In 1947 she was taken out of reserve and rejoined the commercial shipping trade under the name Hawaiian Farmer. The ship was scrapped in Taiwan in 1971.
This page features our only views of the SS Sea Sturgeon, a troop transport converted from a C3 type freighter.
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Page made 22 March 2003
New image added 25 March 2003