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Photo # NH 97108:  USNS General A.W. Greely amid the ice at Thule, Greenland, July 1951.  USS LSM-397 is alongside.

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USS/USNS General A.W. Greely (AP-141, later T-AP-141), 1945-1968.
Served at U.S. Army Transport General A.W. Greely in 1946-1950

USS General A.W. Greely, a 9950-ton C4 type transport, was built at Richmond, California, in 1944-45. Acquired by the Navy and commissioned in March 1945, she performed personnel transportation duties in the Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic for the next year. She was decommissioned in March 1946 and transferred to the Army Transportation Service, in whose hands she continued to carry troops and other personnel until March 1950, when she was reacquired by the Navy and assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) under the designation T-AP-141.

From the summer of 1950 to May 1951, USNS General A.W. Greely made four voyages from the U.S. to Japan in support of Korean War needs. She then shifted to the Atlantic, where she transported personnel to and from Europe and provided other services for three more years. General A.W. Greely briefly operated in the Pacific from mid-1954 until she was placed out of service in March 1955.

After being laid up for well over a decade, General A.W. Greely was sold for commercial use. Converted to a container ship in 1968, she subsequently was renamed several times, becoming Hawaii Bear in 1969, Austral Glade in 1975, Pacific Enterprise in 1979 and Caribe Enterprise in 1982. She was sold for scrapping in 1986.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS/USNS General A.W. Greely and the U.S. Army Transport General A.W. Greely.


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Photo #: NH 104636

USS General A.W. Greely
(AP-141)

Halftone reproduction of a photograph of the ship in port, circa 1946. She appears to have been repainted in the colors of the U.S. Army Transporation service, with which she served as USAT General A.W. Greely from 1946 to 1950, after which she was USNS General A.W. Greely (T-AP-141).

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 61583

USNS General A.W. Greely (T-AP-141)


Photographed circa the early 1950s.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 97108

USNS General A.W. Greely (T-AP-141)


Amid the ice at Thule, Greenland, during Operation "Blue Jay", 19 July 1951.
USS LSM-397 is alongside.

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

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Photo #: NH 97096

SS Flying Enterprise
(left distance)

Listing heavily to port in stormy seas in the northeastern Atlantic, seen from USNS General A.W. Greely (T-AP-141), circa 29 December 1951. At right is a lifeboat, returning to the General A.W. Greely with survivors of the Flying Enterprise. A merchant tanker is standing by off the listing ship's bow.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

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Text modified 23 November 1999
New image added and coding updated 12 February 2007