List of ships of the United States Army

thumb|[[Brooklyn Army Terminal|Brooklyn Army Base, New York, between the wars.]]

thumb|Aerial photograph of piers at headquarters and at U.S. Naval Repair Base during loading operations showing nine Army transport ships docked at the commercial wharfs at San Diego, California. (National Archives and Records Administration)

Section 3062, Title 10, U.S. Code, states that the Army includes "land combat and service forces and such aviation and water transport as may be organic therein."

Army water transport capabilities include operation of fixed port facilities, construction and emplacement of temporary ports, operation of a variety of logistics watercraft (including transport vessels, lighterage, harbor and ocean-capable tug boats), plus port clearance capabilities.

During World War II, the U.S. Army operated about 127,800 watercraft of various types. Those included large troop and cargo transport ships that were Army-owned hulls, vessels allocated by the War Shipping Administration, bareboat charters, and time charters. In addition to the transports, the Army fleet included specialized types. Those included vessels not related to transport such as mine warfare vessels, waterway or port maintenance ships, and other service craft.

For example: operated throughout the war's massive logistics effort in support of worldwide operations. After the war the Army's fleet began to resume its peacetime role and even regain the old colors of gray hulls, white deck houses and buff trimming, masts and booms with the red, white and blue stack rings. An example may be seen in the photographs of USAT Fred C. Ainsworth.

Some confusion may exist in the precise definition of "Army ship" as many ships saw Army service during the Second World War that were never or only briefly (a brief Army time or voyage charter) part of the Army's fleet. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Close to those were the ships that were bareboat chartered by the Army, meaning that only the hull itself was chartered and Army was responsible for crewing and all other operational aspects. Others were long term allocations to Army by the War Shipping Administration so that they operated as Army transports and cargo vessels for much of the war. The more confusing ships are those that were short-term or time or voyage chartered ships. Some of these ships, acquired and operating under United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), achieved some notability in military history in daring voyages to resupply the forces cut off in the Philippines from either Australia or the already collapsing Dutch East Indies. That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324:

thumb|Philippine registered Dona Nati, part of "General MacArthur's fleet into 1942," one of three ships to successfully run the Japanese blockade of the Philippines.

<blockquote>On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty-eight vessels—the twenty-one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. The , the Coast Farmer, and the , chartered by WSA; and the Anhui, the Yochow and the Hanyang, believed to be chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport (BMWT) for the U.S. Army, though no official information concerning their status had been received. Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non-commissioned utility vessels. Digital photographs of a few of these vessels in Army service are provided at the Naval History and Heritage Command. Others were sold commercially or simply scrapped.

The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non-commissioned ships designated as U.S. Naval Ship (prefix "USNS"). Some Army vessels, still crewed by Army civilians just transferred, were suddenly sailing before fully taking on the new service's administrative functions and colors.

Currently active ship classes

Runnymede-class large landing craft (35 built)
MGen. Nathanael Greene-class large coastal tugs (6 built)
General Frank S. Besson-class logistics support vessels (8 built)
LCM-8 Landing Craft Mechanized - (40 built)

The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U.S. Army Transportation Corps. (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command.) These craft are identified by the following hull code and type;

DUKW – Six-wheel-drive amphibious truck
JMLS – Joint Modular Lighter System
LACV-30 – Lighter ACV 30-ton
LAMP-H – Lighter, Amphibian - Heavy Lift
LARC – Lighter, Amphibious, Resupply, Cargo (in 5, 15 and 60-ton versions)
TLV – Theater Logistics Vessel
RIB – Rapidly Installed Breakwater System
BC – Barge, dry-cargo, nonpropelled
BCDK – Conversion kit, barge deck enclosure
BCL – Barge, dry-cargo, nonpropelled, large
BD – Crane, floating
BDL – Lighter, beach discharge
BG – Barge, liquid cargo, nonpropelled
BK – Barge, dry cargo, nonpropelled
BPL – Barge, pier, nonpropelled
BR – Barge, refrigerated, nonpropelled
CF – Ferry, Causeway
FB – Ferryboat
FD – Dry dock, floating
FMS – Repair shop, floating, nonpropelled
FS – Freight and supply vessel, large
J – Boat, utility
LARC – Lighter, amphibious
LCM – Landing craft, mechanized
LCU – Landing craft, utility
LSV – Logistics support vessel
LT – Tug, large, seagoing
MWT – Modular Warping, Tug
ST – Tug, small, harbor
T – Boat, passenger and cargo
TCDF – Temporary crane discharge facility
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo

The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non-hopper dredges. In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges.

Aircraft Repair Ship

Aircraft Repair Units (Floating)

thumb|The Liberty ship Rebecca Lukens was converted into a floating machine shop, repair, and maintenance depot and rechristened as the Maj Gen Herbert A Dargue.

A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted at Point Clear, Alabama, near Brookley Field, outside Mobile, Alabama. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. The ships were fitted with machine tools, cranes, and all the equipment necessary for a machine shop, including welding, radiator, tank, wood, patterns, blue print, electrical, fabric and dope, paint, air-conditioned instrument and camera shops, radio, battery, propeller, tires and fuel cells, armament and turrets, plating, radar, carburetor, and turbo-super-charger. They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Each ship was also provided with two motor launches and two DUKWs or "ducks", amphibious trucks for carrying parts too heavy for the helicopters. Two personnel were trained as divers. Each was equipped with a steel deck to support helicopter operations. Each ship was assigned a complement of 344 soldiers who were trained for marine operations. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land.

The ships were designated as Aircraft Repair Units, Floating (ARUs) and operated by the Army Transport Service, all of whose officers and men were merchant mariners. The ships provided mobile depot support for B-29 Superfortress and P-51 Mustangs based on Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa beginning in December 1944. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R-4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter-equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa.

1st ARU(F) Major General Robert Olds (ex-SS Daniel E. Garrett)
2d ARU(F) Major General Herbert A. Dargue (ex-SS Rebecca Lukens)
3rd ARU(F) Major General Walter R. Weaver (ex-SS Thomas LeValley)

4th ARU(F) Brigadier General Asa N. Duncan (ex-SS Richard O'Brien)
5th ARU(F) Brigadier General Clinton W. Russell (ex-SS Robert W. Bingham
6th ARU(F) Brigadier General Alfred J. Lyon (ex-SS SS Nathaniel Scudder)

Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship

Design 427: Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180-foot 573 ton steel vessels built by Higgins;

FS-204 Col. Clifford P. Bradley
FS-205 Col. Richard E. Cobb
FS-206 Col. John D. Corkille (#1) and (#2)
FS-207 Col. Demas T. Craw
FS-208 Col. Everett S. Davis
FS-209 Col. Sam L. Ellis
FS-210 Col. Oliver S. Ferson
FS-211 Col. Percival E. Gabel
FS-212 Col. Donald M. Keiser
FS-213 Col. Douglas M. Kilpatrick
FS-214 Col. Raymond T. Lester
FS-215 Col. Donald R. Lyon
FS-216 Col. William J. McKiernan
FS-217 Col. Armand Peterson (went to the Navy as )
FS-218 Col. Charles T. Phillips
FS-219 Col. Edgar R. Todd
FS-220 Col. Harold B. Wright
FS-221 Col. Francis T. Ziegler

Seacraft Repair Ship

Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from to in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U.S. Coast Guard-crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area.</blockquote>

See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard-Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":

USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co.

Other repair vessels

Koondooloo 524 grt, X X : Acquired for Southwest Pacific Area permanent local fleet, Small Ship Section, a double ended vehicular ferry built in Scotland in 1924 for Sydney Ferries Limited and converted in 1937 into a show/excursion boat with dance floor and 1,700 passenger capacity. Converted by the Army from coal to oil and fitted with a 30-ton boom, Koondooloo (S-181) was used as a workboat in New Guinea servicing amphibious vehicles and vessels. Reconverted to a vehicular ferry 1951 and wrecked while under tow to Philippines in 1972.
"Half Rufus" was the bow of the Liberty ship which ran aground on Moreton Island, Queensland, Australia. The ship had broken in two with the bow salvaged by the Commonwealth Marine Salvage Board, taken over by the U.S. Army Small Ships Section and equipped with vertical boiler for power, a machine shop used for repairing vessels and bunkers for coal and fuel oil for refueling them. Given the number S-129 and dubbed "Half Rufus" the salvaged bow was towed to Milne Bay, arriving 21 June 1944, and then to Finschhafen where repair equipment was transferred to a barge in April 1945 and the bow section then used as a coal hulk.

Depot Ship

Seven cargo vessels were converted to spare parts depot ships to facilitate the maintenance of military equipment in oversea areas.

<blockquote>The 20 dry cargo barges originally intended for bauxite were taken by the Army and 17 were used in the southwest Pacific for storehouses. Of the 24 steam cargo concrete vessels, 17 were converted by the Army into floating storehouses, 5 were used by the Army as training ships and 2 found an honorable end when sunk to form part of the breakwater protecting the American landing in Normandy at Omaha beach. A. D. Kahn, "Concrete Ship and Barge Program, 1941-1944" Ships for victory: a history of shipbuilding under the U.S. Maritime Commission in World War II</blockquote>

;Concrete ship

265-foot BCL (barge, concrete, large) Type B Concrete Barge
5 Builders of Concrete Ships
Design MC B7-D1, 2 ships for US Army
World War II in the Pacific Concrete Ships
Concrete Ship hulks
22 covered lighters (Army floating stores warehouse or BCL), 265 feet, used by Army as floating warehouses.
3 lighters used as refrigerated warehouses.
2 Army repair ships (Army repair ship or FMS).
Floating Marine Repair Shop

Small Ships

The Army had its own program for small boat construction and directly procured vessels and water craft that were under 200 feet or under 1,000 gross tons.

Army F-ships (100-dwt) were little freighters built on the lines of a Dutch wooden shoe and had a capacity of about 100 tons with a maximum speed of 8 knots. During the war these little ships plied back and forth between Navy PT boat bases, Crash Rescue Boat bases, and Engineer Special Brigade bases in the Pacific for the purpose of transporting personnel, hauling supplies and cargo, or occasionally for towing fuel barges and water craft, to bases along the coasts or to nearby islands.

Design 216 (Boat, Supply, Diesel, Steel, 99')
Design 225 (Boat, Supply, Ice-Breaker, Diesel, Steel, 102'), Three design number 225 vessels were built by Equitable Equipment Company in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1942, they most likely operated in Alaska or in Greenland waters.

Retrieving Vessel

Eleven of these small ships were built for the U.S. Army Air Corps/Army Air Forces in late 1942 through mid 1943. The official designation was "Design No. 210, 150 Foot Steel Diesel Retrieving Vessel", sometimes termed "Aircraft Retrieving Vessel" in later references. Name format was "U.S. Army" over "H.A.# NAME" as indicated by a builder's model. Dimensions were 158' 3" LOA × 32' beam (moulded) at deck × 8' draft powered by two 300 hp diesels, and was equipped with a 30-ton jumbo lift boom along with regular cargo booms and had a cargo capacity of 500 measurement tons. These vessels were primarily used as supply ships, that could retrieve aircraft if needed.

H.A. 2 Morrow
H.A. 3 Van Nostrand
H.A. 4 Miller
H.A. 5 Beck
H.A. 6 Colgan
H.A. 7 Chandler
H.A. 8 Bane
H.A. 9 Bower
H.A. 10 Stone
H.A. 11 (unknown)
H.A. 12 (unknown)

Schooners

SWPA CP Fleet, Army CS ships provided communications relays and acted as command posts (CP) for forward elements ashore. CSM (Maintenance) ships, in addition to acting as CS ships, were also equipped for radio repair operations to supply floating maintenance. CSQ (Quarters) ships acted as floating dormitories. CSN (News) ships were used by civilian reporters.

Wawona
C.A. Thayer
Coringle (S-31)
Tuhoe (S-132)
Argosy Lemal (S-6)
Harold (S-58, CS-3)
Geoanna (IX-61, TP-249, S-382, CS-1)
Volador (IX-59, TP-248, S-385, CSM-1)

Cable laying ships

thumb|Cable ship Burnside in [[Ketchikan, Alaska, June 1911.]]

The Army had a history of submarine cable work by the time of World War II operations, dating back to the 1899-1900 period. Much of this work had been in relation to communications with far flung Army forces in the Philippines and Alaska. The Army Signal Corps used a number of cable ships for that work including Burnside, Romulus, Liscum, Dellwood and two vessels intimately associated with the Coast Artillery Corps controlled mine work at the coastal fortifications; Cyrus W. Field and Joseph Henry. That cable laying capability had been allowed to deteriorate to the point that the Army had to charter the C.S. Restorer in 1941.

As with other cable work, some vessels were chartered. For example, the vessel Orizaba (not the later Army owned vessel of the same name) was under Army charter from the Pacific Coast Steamship Company before being lost in 1900. That Spanish–American War prize was replaced by the larger Dellwood for work with Alaskan cables.

There is some confusion on ship designators within even official records. The conventional commercial and nautical term for such ships was "CS (name)" for "Cable Ship". The mix of USAT, CS and even the simple "Steam Ship" (SS), as seen in postwar construction of the , later the USS/USNS Neptune, can be somewhat confusing. All three terms are found in official usage. For example, Smithsonian Institution library records clearly show some of these Army ships as CS Dellwood and CS Silverado. Army ship management lay in the Quartermaster Corps and later the Transportation Corps. Technical management of the cable ships was under Signal Corps and the entire enterprise of undersea cable work was the very specialized realm of several large communications corporations which operated their own cable vessels and provided experts in handling cable equipment and cable. Each appears to have used familiar terms when noting the ships in records as seen in the Quartermaster reference, The remaining ships were probably mixed crews.

Dellwood
Gen. Samuel M. Mills (1942 Mine Planter)
Joseph Henry (Associated with Coast Artillery Corps mine work)
Lt. Col. Ellery W. Niles (1937 Mine Planter)
William Bullard
Bear (snagboat)
Montgomery (snagboat)
Seizer (snagboat)
Sergeant Floyd (towboat)
William M. Black (dredge)
WT Preston (snagboat)
Yuba (snagboat)

During World War II, five seagoing hopper dredges already in civil service, were fitted with 3-inch deck guns and 20-millimeter antiaircraft guns. Four were sent to the ETO and last one, Hains, was sent to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO), along with the cutter dredge 'Raymond', additionally four new Hains-class armed dredges were constructed for use in the PTO.

Chester Harding (dredge)
William T. Rossell (dredge)
William L. Marshall (dredge)

Hains-class hopper dredge

Hains (1942)
Hoffman (1942)
Hyde (1945)
Barth (1945)
Lyman (1945)
Davidson (1945)

Towed cutter dredge

Raymond (1926)

Mine Planters

250px|thumb|right|USAMP Major Samuel Ringgold, built in 1904. (National Archives and Records Administration)

The U.S. Army Mine Planter Service (AMPS), under the Coast Artillery Corps, operated ships designated as U.S. Army Mine Planter (USAMP) to 'plant' the controlled mines guarding approaches to coastal fortifications. Numerous smaller vessels, not designated as USAMP, worked with the planters in a mine flotilla.

Col. George Armistead (1904)
Cyrus W. Field (1904)
Col. Henry J. Hunt (1904)
Gen. Henry Knox (1904)
Maj. Samuel Ringgold (1904)
Gen. Royal T. Frank (1909)
Joseph Henry (1909)
Gen. Samuel M. Mills (1909)
Gen. E. O. C. Ord (1909)
Gen. John M. Schofield (1909)

Mine Planters 1917-1919;

thumb|right|USAMP MP-7 Major General Wallace F. Randolph.)

USAMP General Henry Knox (MP-1) (1942)
USAMP Colonel Henry J. Hunt (MP-2) (1942)
USAMP Colonel George Armistead (MP-3) (1942)
Gen. Samuel M. Mills (MP-4) (1942)
USAMP 1st Lt. William G. Sylvester (MP-5) (1942)
Brig. Gen. Henry L. Abbott (MP-6) (1942)
USAMP Major General Wallace F. Randolph (MP-7) (1942)
USAMP Colonel John Storey (MP-8) (1942)
Maj. Gen. Arthur Murray (MP-9) (1942)
Maj. Gen. Erasmus Weaver (MP-10) (1942)
Maj. Samuel Ringgold (MP-11) (1942)
Brig. Gen. Royal T. Frank (MP-12) (1943)
Col. Alfred A. Maybach (MP-13) (1943)
Col. Horace F. Spurgin (MP-14) (1943)
Col. Charles W. Bundy (MP-15) (1943)
Col. George Ricker (MP-16) (1943)

Note

Junior Mine Planters

Smaller vessels known as, "junior mine planters", or "pup planters", were occasionally employed as mine planters, but for the most part they served as freight and passenger boats for river and harbor duty. One source states the Army had 30 junior mine planters by 1919.

Junior Mine Planters 1904–1909

JMP Major Evan Thomas (1904)
JMP Lt. George M. Harris (1905)
JMP General Robert Swartwout (1905)
JMP Major Albert G. Forse (1907)
JMP Capt. T.W. Morrison (1907)
JMP Capt. Charles W. Rowell (1907)
JMP Capt. A.M. Wetherill (1907)
JMP General Richard Arnold (1909) (sunk by a storm 1942)
U.S. Army "FS-63"
U.S. Army "FS-64"
JMP-70 (1943) (converted from FS-70 prior to launch)

FS (freight and supply vessels)

thumb|U.S. Army Cargo Vessel FP-343 ("FP" later changed to "FS"), a "Design 381" (Vessel, Supply, Diesel, Steel, 177'), was later to become Navy's T-AKL-34.

Prior to World War II the Army operated a number of passenger and freight vessels for local transport between installations located on water. These were operated by the Quartermaster Corps. During World War I they were often used to transport troops from training camps to embarkation piers, particularly at the New York Port of Embarkation. For example, the 1918 registry, Merchant Vessels of the United States, under its Quartermaster vessels section lists some 33 small passenger and freight steamers, many former commercial vessels, ranging from the Peterson to the El Aguila. Among those in the 1918 register were Major L'Enfant, a steamer that served on the Potomac and burned in Baltimore on 3 December 1919 and General Meigs, a Quartermaster Corps passenger and freight steamer built in 1892 by John H. Dialogue & Son, Camden New Jersey, and serving in the early 20th century with a name given to much larger ships later.

thumb|right|Two of the fifteen Design 342, 148' wooden vessels went to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Here , ex FS-246, is at anchor in the [[Bering Sea off the Pribilof Islands in 1961.]]

A class of small coastal and inter-island freighters during World War II were first designated "FP" for "freight and passenger" with early acquisitions being a variety of commercial hulls. Early in the war a number of designs were inaugurated. Some, such as "Design 277" (Vessel, Passenger-Cargo, Diesel, Wood, 114') were wooden hull while the "classic" "Design 381" (Vessel, Supply, Diesel, Steel, 177') was a miniature steel cargo vessel with two hatches and central booms. Only fifteen of the larger wooden vessels, Design 342 (Vessel, Passenger-Cargo, Diesel, Wood, 148'), were built to serve largely in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. These, as with all the smaller Army ships, were simply designated "U.S. Army name (number)", and not designated U.S. Army Transport (USAT). They were operated by Transportation Corps with a variety of crewing schemes. A few were all military, many were civilian crewed and a large number were U.S. Coast Guard crewed. The USCG crewed vessels have more Army history preserved than most of these little ships.

thumb|U.S. Army Cargo Vessel FP-344 (redesignated FS-344). Transferred to the Navy in 1966, she became .

U.S. Army FS-99 (The Catalina Island ferry Catalina 25 August 1942—22 April 1946)

U.S. Army FS-214
U.S. Army FS-217
U.S. Army FS-237/Atkins (USC&GS Explorer (1904) acquired 1941 for survey work with United States Army Corps of Engineers.)
U.S. Army FS-244/Lt. Walter J. Will
U.S. Army FS-246/Lt. Raymond Zussman
U.S. Army FS-255
U.S. Army FS-256
U.S. Army FS-257
U.S. Army FS-263
U.S. Army FS-267
U.S. Army FS-274
U.S. Army FS-275
U.S. Army FS-278
U.S. Army FS-282
U.S. Army FS-287
U.S. Army FS-288
U.S. Army FS-289
U.S. Army FS-316
U.S. Army FS-343
U.S. Army FS-344
U.S. Army FS-345
U.S. Army FS-347
U.S. Army FS-361
U.S. Army FS-370
U.S. Army FS-371
U.S. Army FS-385
U.S. Army FS-391
U.S. Army FS-394
U.S. Army FS-395
U.S. Army FS-396
U.S. Army FS-400
U.S. Army FS-407
U.S. Army FS-411
U.S. Army FS-524
U.S. Army FS-539
U.S. Army FS-551
U.S. Army FS-751

For reference above see the comprehensive list in Grover's print book U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II chapter "Coastal Freighters and Passenger Vessels" (pages 74–89) and the builders list "U.S. Army Coastal Freighters (F, FS) Built During WWII" at ShipbuildingHistory. The last only covers the acquired commercial hulls as "Converted merchant vessels" with no details.

A number of vessels were operated by the Army as small coastal freighters and passenger vessels without being formally given FP/FS numbers.

Southern Seas

Some vessels were acquired postwar, including:

U.S. Army FSR-791 ("FSR" indicated a refrigerated freight and supply vessel)

Hospital ships

, an 1898 Newcastle built 312 foot long oil fired passenger/cargo vessel, was the first officially designated hospital ship in the Southwest Pacific and made a single voyage in that role evacuating severely wounded patients, nurses, students and other passengers from Manila, Philippines to Brisbane, Australia.
Two Dutch vessels, Maetsuycker and , serving in the Southwest Pacific Area were operationally controlled by the U.S. Army but were certified as hospital ships by the Netherlands, maintained Dutch registry and flag. These ships have also sometimes mistakenly been shown as Australian hospital ships due to their close association with evacuating Australian troops.

USAHS Acadia
USAHS Aleda E. Lutz
USAHS Algonquin
USAHS Blanche F. Sigman
USAHS Charles A. Stafford
USAHS Chateau Thierry
USAHS Comfort, aka US Navy AH-6
USAHS Dogwood
USAHS Emily H. M. Weder
USAHS Ernest Hinds
USAHS Ernestine Koranda
USAHS Frances Y. Slanger (ex-Italian liner Saturnia)
USAHS Hope, aka US Navy AH-7
USAHS Jarrett M. Huddleston
USAHS Jasmine
USAHS John J. Meany
USAHS John L. Clem
USAHS Larkspur
USAHS Louis A. Milne
USAHS Marigold
USAHS Mercy, aka US Navy AH-8
USAHS Poppy
USAHS Relief
USAHS Republic
USAHS Seminole
USAHS Shamrock
USAHS St. Mihiel
USAHS St. Olaf
USAHS Thistle
USAHS Wisteria

Transport ships

This is a partial list of ships in Army service under one of the following arrangements:

Army owned
Under bareboat charter (Army management of all operational aspects including crewing)
Allocated by the War Shipping Administration (WSA) for varying periods with commercial crews
Under a charter of the time or voyage type to Army with normal commercial crews

Ships known to fall in each of these categories appear in the list below. Exempted from WSA control were combatants, vessels owned by Army or Navy and coastal and inland vessels.

B

USAT Borinquen
(ferry)
(ferry)
(converted to cable ship)

C

USAT Chaumont
(See CSAV History)
USAT Cynthia Olsen – sunk 7 December 1941

D

E

(Ex Philippine war hospital ship Missouri found unfit for that service.)
USAT Esther Johnson
USAT Evangeline

F

(formerly )

G

Note: The newer, large transports of WW II named for generals were the P2-S2-R2 variant of the P2 transport design, not an indicator of service affiliation. All of the "Admiral" variants that were put into service were transferred to the Army after the war and renamed for generals. The Army did name a number of its non P2 type ships, many pre war, after generals.

H

(C3 troopship)
(converted to cable ship, lost August 1899, Manila)
(ex USAT Collier No. 1 built 1914 at Shanghai, China for U.S. Army, based Manila under port Quartermaster 1916–1926)

I

(See CSAV History)

J

USAT John Ericsson

K

L

USAT Lakehurst
USAT Lawton
USAT Lt. Alexander R. Nininger
(acquired by the Navy as )
(acquired by the Navy as )

M

(ferry)
(became USAT Logan)
USAT Masaya
USAT Matagalpa
USAT M.I.T. Victory

N

O

P

USAT Portmar
USAT President Fillmore

R

S

USAT Santa Cecilia (1913)
USAT Santa Paula
USAT Santa Rosa (1916)
USAT Sgt. Sylvester Antolak
USAT Saturnia
USAT Spindle Eye / Sgt. Curtis F. Shoup

T

USAT Teapa

U

W

Y

Z

Tugs

Army tugs were seen as far back as the American Civil War with the 1862 screw tug Terror. World War II era tugs came in two general classifications, though those were not rigid and variances may particularly be seen in commercial vessels taken in early during the war. Seagoing tugs, 92'-100' or greater were designated Large Tug (LT). Harbor tugs were Small Tugs (ST). The Transportation Corps determined that at war's end it was operating 746 tugs of the LT/ST types.

A large number of highly varied commercial tugs were taken into Army service above those constructed to Army designs and Army tugs of prewar design dating to the early 1900s. In addition to these there were a variety of small towing craft, numbering in thousands, termed motor towing launches (MTL), sometimes overlapping the STs in length, and marine tractors of 40'and less length, some with the colorful name of "Sea Mules" with dimensions of 40 x 13 x 8 and two Chrysler gasoline engines. All were simply U.S. Army (LT/ST #).

A construction program in Australia built a number of tugs for the Southwest Pacific Area in both LT and ST size. They were U.S. Army tugs, but not carried in the same central listing as the U.S. built tugs. The Army acquired commercial vessels or had in its inventory tugs early during WWII, before standardized design construction met requirements, that were LT in size which retained commercial names and did not have LT numbers. WWII LT construction did not use numbers greater than 935

Named, unnumbered Large Tug (LT) size

BG John B. Bellinger
Lt. Col. George S. Gillis
Lt. Col. Herbert L. Kidwell
Maj Geo J. Harrell

World War II numbered Large Tug (LT)

U.S. Army MAJ Ethel A. Robbins (LT 1)
U.S. Army Maj MAJ Ralph Bogle (LT 3)
U.S. Army "LT-60"
U.S. Army "LT-62"
U.S. Army "LT-132"
U.S. Army LT-154 "Keith E. Selders"
U.S. Army "LT-156"
U.S. Army LT-159 "John O'Reilly"
U.S. Army "LT-187"
U.S. Army LT-214 "Arthur A. Tanner"
U.S. Army "LT-221"
U.S. Army "LT-239"
U.S. Army "LT-371"
U.S. Army "LT-376"
U.S. Army "LT-377"
U.S. Army "LT-389"
U.S. Army "LT-452"
U.S. Army "LT-455"
U.S. Army "LT-532"
U.S. Army LT-535
U.S. Army "LT-536"
U.S. Army "LT-646"
U.S. Army "LT-784"
U.S. Army LT-814
U.S. Army "LT-815"
U.S. Army "LT-820"
U.S. Army "LT-821"

Postwar numbered Large Tug (LT)

thumb|U.S. Army LT–1960 Lindis Lane at Field Support Battalion-Hythe, England

U.S. Army "LT–1960" Lindis Lane
U.S. Army "LT-1964"
U.S. Army "LT-2075"
U.S. Army "LT-2082"
U.S. Army Col. Albert H. Barkley

Small Tug (ST)

thumb|U.S. Army ST-891, an 85-foot (Design 327D) diesel small tug. (United States Army In World War II-The Technical Services-The Transportation Corps: Movements, Training, And Supply, p.487.)

U.S. Army "ST-10"
U.S. Army "ST-35"
U.S. Army "ST-39"
U.S. Army "ST-165"
U.S. Army "ST-488"
U.S. Army "ST-511"
U.S. Army "ST-539"
U.S. Army "ST-672"
U.S. Army "ST-674"
U.S. Army "ST-675"
U.S. Army "ST-679"
U.S. Army "ST-695"
U.S. Army "ST-719"
U.S. Army "ST-720"
U.S. Army "ST-725"
U.S. Army "ST-731"