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Photo # NH 98760:  USS Admiral Hugh Rodman in San Francisco Bay, California, in late 1945 or early 1946.

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Admiral Hugh Rodman (AP-126), 1945-1997.
Later USAT General Maurice Rose and
USNS General Maurice Rose (T-AP-126)

USS Admiral Hugh Rodman, a 9,676-ton (light displacement) transport, was built by the Maritime Commission to its P2-SE2-R1 design as an Admiral W. S. Benson-class troop transport and was commissioned in July 1945. She was on her shakedown cruise off California when the Japanese surrender ended World War II. Between August 1945 and March 1946 she made five voyages from the U. S. west coast to the western Pacific, carrying occupation troops and relief personnel for veterans returning home. Admiral Hugh Rodman then transited to New York, where in May 1946 she was decommissioned and transferred to the Army.

The Army assumed formal ownership of the ship in February 1947 and renamed her General Maurice Rose. Between May 1947 and the end of 1948 she was converted to a peacetime transport, with military features, including armament, removed. The Rose served with the Army Transportation Service until, in March 1950, all Army transports were turned over to the newly created Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS). Ownership passed back to the Navy, but the ship retained her Army name.

As a civilian-manned MSTS transport, USNS General Maurice Rose spent most of her career on the route between New York and Bremerhaven, West Germany, supporting U. S. military forces in Europe. Following the abortive Hungarian revolution of 1957, she made three voyages from Bremerhaven carrying Hungarian refugees to New York. During these years, the ship also deployed to the Mediterranean 17 times to assist Sixth Fleet operations. Between August and October 1965 the Rose steamed from New York to the Far East to support U. S. forces in Vietnam. A second such trip was made between September 1966 and January 1967. Then, following an overhaul, the transport was laid up in ready reserve at the Caven Point (New Jersey) Army Depot in New York harbor. Never reactivated, General Maurice Rose was transferred to the permanent custody of the Maritime Admininstration in July 1971 and moved to that agency's James River Reserve Fleet, in Virginia. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in August 1990 and sold by the Maritime Administration in June 1997 for scrapping at Brownsville, Texas.

This page features, or provides links to, most of the views we have related to USS Admiral Hugh Rodman (AP-126), USAT General Maurice Rose and USNS General Maurice Rose (T-AP-126).

For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USNS General Maurice Rose (T-AP-126) -- Ship Views taken in 1960 and Later;
  • USNS General Maurice Rose (T-AP-126) -- People; and
  • USNS General Maurice Rose (T-AP-126) -- Ship's Work and Training.


    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 #: NH 98760

    USS Admiral Hugh Rodman
    (AP-126)

    In San Francisco Bay, California, in late 1945 or early 1946.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 56KB; 740 x 550 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 83459

    USS Admiral Hugh Rodman
    (AP-126)

    In San Francisco Bay, California, circa 1945-1946.
    This ship was later USNS General Maurice Rose (T-AP-126).

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1975.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103622

    USS Admiral Hugh Rodman
    (AP-126)

    Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken circa 1945-1946.
    Transferred to the U.S. Army in 1946 and renamed General Maurice Rose, this ship became USNS General Maurice Rose (T-AP-126) in 1950.

    Copied from the book "Troopships of World War II", by Roland W. Charles.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 48KB; 740 x 415 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98771

    USNS General Maurice Rose
    (T-AP-126)

    Photographed during the early 1950s.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Military Sealift Command Collection at the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 83460

    USNS General Maurice Rose
    (T-AP-126)

    Underway in 1953.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1975.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 480 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98772

    USNS General Maurice Rose
    (T-AP-126)

    Photographed circa the 1950s.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Military Sealift Command Collection at the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     


    For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USNS General Maurice Rose (T-AP-126) -- Ship Views taken in 1960 and Later;
  • USNS General Maurice Rose (T-AP-126) -- People; and
  • USNS General Maurice Rose (T-AP-126) -- Ship's Work and Training.


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


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    Page made 2 January 2006
    New images added and page divided 28 December 2006