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Photo # 80-G-466193:  USAT Hunter Liggett during amphibious exercises, circa 3 February 1941

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-- SHIPS of the UNITED STATES ARMY --

USAT Hunter Liggett (Transport, 1939-1941)

U.S. Army Transport Hunter Liggett, a 13,712 gross ton troop transport, was built at Sparrows Point, Maryland, in 1922 as the civilian passenger liner Pan America. In February 1939, she was turned over to the War Department for its use. Renamed Hunter Liggett, she was converted for military use and made her first voyage beginning in April 1939, steaming from New York to San Francisco, California, by way of the Panama Canal. During the next two years, she carried Army personnel and materiel in both the Atlantic and Pacific areas, and took part in amphibious exercises on occasion. The ship was taken over by the U.S. Navy in June 1941, becoming USS Hunter Liggett (AP-27). In March 1946, after spending all of World War II in Navy service, she was returned to the Army, but was not further employed. She was sold for scrapping in January 1948.

This page features all our views of the U.S. Army Transport Hunter Liggett.

For additional views of this ship, taken following her transfer to the Navy, see:

  • USS Hunter Liggett (AP-27, later APA-14).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: 80-G-466193

    U.S. Army Transport Hunter Liggett


    Photographed circa 3 February 1941, while taking part in fleet landing exercises in the Caribbean.
    Note Higgens-type landing craft on her deck, just aft of the midships superstructure, and U.S. flag painted on her hull side as a neutrality marking.
    This ship was taken over by the U.S. Navy about four months later and became USS Hunter Liggett (AP-27).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 93KB; 740 x 600 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     


    Note: There is a halftone photograph of the U.S. Army Transport Hunter Liggett on page 36 of the book "Troopships of World War II", by Roland W. Charles (published 1947). This view was taken from off the ship's port bow, from surface level, while she in a harbor during 1939-41.
    A copy of this photograph is held by the Naval Historical Center's Photographic Section, in its copy of Charles' book.

    For additional views of this ship, taken following her transfer to the Navy, see:

  • USS Hunter Liggett (AP-27, later APA-14).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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