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Photo # NH 98748:  USS Sevier in San Francisco Bay in late 1945 or early 1946

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Sevier (APA-233), 1944-1980

USS Sevier was one of the 117 Haskell-class attack transports built to a modified Victory ship design. Constructed at Vancouver, Washington, she was commissioned in December 1944. After shakedown training at San Pedro, the new transport departed the West Coast in February 1945 and, sailing via Pearl Harbor and Eniwetok, arrived off Iwo Jima in March to evacuate Marines who had participated in the initial assault on that island. She disembarked these in Hawaii in April, embarked a construction battalion and some Marines, and sailed in May for Ulithi. In June Sevier was ordered forward to Okinawa, where she disembarked the Seabees and Marines and their equipment. She then sailed for the West Coast, arriving in San Francisco in July and subsequently moving to Seattle for repairs to her propeller shaft.

Sevier left San Francisco at the end of July and was at Pearl Harbor when Japan capitulated in August. She delivered occupation troops from Hawaii to Sasebo, Japan, in September and brought more occupation troops to Sasebo from the Philippines in October. Sevier then carried out two voyages under Operation "Magic Carpet," returning veterans from the Western Pacific to San Francisco in November and to Seattle in December. Continuing her support of occupation operations in 1946, Sevier called at Pearl Harbor in March, San Francisco and Yokosuka in April, and Pearl again in May. There she was assigned the duty of evacuating personnel from Bikini in preparation for the forthcoming atomic bomb tests, duty which took her to Kwajalein and Bikini and then to San Francisco in June. In September she sailed from San Diego to Yokosuka, and in October moved to the China coast, where she spent the next three months at anchor in Tsingtao and Chinwangtao. She returned to San Francisco in February 1947 for inactivation. USS Sevier was decommissioned in April 1947, delivered to the Maritime Commission for retention in its reserve fleet, and stricken from the Navy List in June. She was sold for scrapping in February 1980.

This page features all our views of USS Sevier (APA-233).


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Photo #: NH 98748

USS Sevier
(APA-233)

In San Francisco Bay, California, in late 1945 or early 1946.
She is returning troops from the Western Pacific to the United States as part of Operation "Magic Carpet."

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 550 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 99012

USS Sevier
(APA-233)

At anchor circa 1945.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Sevier (APA-233). The following list features some of these images:

The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".



  • Photo #: 80-G-349117
    Starboard bow view of USS Sevier (APA-233) in Sasebo harbor, Japan, on 23 September 1945, taken by ENS H. L. Ryan of USS Merrick (AKA-97).

  • Photo #: USN 1044181
    Same views as NH 99012 (presented above) but showing the ship's entire bow. Though received by the Naval Photographic Center in December 1959, this view was actually taken in about 1945.

    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


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


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