USS Livingston was built as the Liberty ship Josiah D. Whitney at Wilmington, California. Completed in April 1943, she was converted by the War Shipping Administration to carry about 1,000 troops, renamed in October, and acquired and commissioned by the Navy in November. Livingston departed the West Coast immediately for Pearl Harbor, where she prepared for the Marshall Islands campaign. In early February 1944 she transported Marines and Seabees to Majuro to reinforce the occupation force there. After another supply voyage to Majuro and more training in Hawaii, she arrived off Saipan in June and supported operations ashore there for some twelve days. During the rest of 1944 the ship carried out a series of supply voyages between Pearl Harbor and the occupied central Pacific islands. Similar in configuration and function to some Liberty cargo ships of the Crater (AK-70) class, Livingston was redesignated AK-222 in August 1944.
Livingston received an overhaul at San Francisco between January and April 1945, carried out a round trip voyage between San Francisco and Hawaii, and then resumed supply voyages in Micronesia. These continued past the Japanese surrender to November 1945, when she sailed for Seattle. Moving to San Francisco in January 1946, USS Livingston was decommissioned there in February and stricken from the Navy list in March 1946. After nearly twenty-seven years in the Maritime Commission's reserve fleet, she was sold for scrapping in 1973.
This page features our only view of USS Livingston (AP-163, later AK-222).
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Page made 22 November 2003