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Photo # NH 98704:  USS Audubon in San Francisco Bay circa 1945-1946

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Audubon (APA-149), 1944-1973

USS Audubon, one of 117 Haskell class attack transports, was built to a modified Victory ship design at Vancouver, Washington, and was commissioned in December 1944. After training on the West Coast and operations from Hawaii, she arrived at Ulithi in April. There she loaded Army troops and supplies, which she delivered to Okinawa at the end of the month in support of the ongoing operations there. The transport then moved to San Francisco in late May and to Leyte in the Philippines in late June. In July Audubon transported Army troops from Guadalcanal to Leyte. At the time of the Japanese surrender in mid-August, she was on her way back to San Francisco for maintenance.

Audubon commenced "Magic Carpet" operations at the end of August with a voyage to the Philippines, but there she developed mechanical problems which required drydocking followed by repairs at San Pedro, California. In November and December she returned to the Philippines and brought almost 2,000 passengers home to San Francisco.

Audubon proceeded to the East Coast in January 1946 and was placed out of commission in reserve there in February. She was transferred to the Maritime Commission in February for retention in its reserve fleet and was stricken from the Navy List in March 1946. The Maritime Administration sold her for scrapping in April 1973.

This page features our only view of USS Audubon (APA-128).


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Photo #: NH 98704

USS Audubon
(APA-149)

Anchored in San Francisco Bay, California, between October 1945 and January 1946.

Donation of Boatswain's Mate First Class Robert G. Tippins, USN (Retired), 2003.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Page made 12 August 2003