USS Sylvania, a 7000-ton (full load displacement) Artemis class attack cargo ship, was built at Providence, Rhode Island, under a Maritime Commission contract. The Navy took her over in May 1945 and placed her in commission later in that month. In mid-June she made her first operational voyage, crossing the Atlantic to Marseilles, France. Sylvania then proceeded to the Pacific, by way of the Panama Canal, and arrived at Manila, Philippine Islands in late August. The rest of 1945 was spent transporting cargo and personnel between the Philippines and Japan, and between the former Pacific war zone and the U.S. West Coast. From February to September 1946, Sylvania supported Operation "Crossroads", the atomic bomb testing program in the Marshall Islands. She decommissioned at Bremerton, Washington, in December 1946 and was stricken from the Navy list in February 1947.
This page features the only view we have of USS Sylvania (AKA-44).
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Page made 11 January 2003