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SS Marine Jumper As a wartime troopship operated by Moore-McCormack for the War Shipping Administration in 1944-47. She is returning troops home just after the war and has the company's peacetime markings on her stack. The port list is probably caused by the homeward-bound troops moving to the port side for docking. In 1952 she was to have become T-AP 200 but her acquisition by MSTS was cancelled. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe |
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SS Marine Serpent As a wartime troopship operated for WSA in 1945-47 by United Fruit Co. and (from November 1946) American President Lines. She is returning troops home circa October 1946 with commercial markings, probably United Fruit, on her stack. In 1952 she became T-AP 202. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe |
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SS Marine Serpent One of three photos including the one above taken by Osborne Photographers of Seattle and mailed on 22 Oct 1946 by Stateside Ship Pictures, Ft. Lawton Exchange, to Gilbert Brickler of Milwaukee, Wisc., at a cost of $2.49 plus 18c postage. A handwritten note on the envelope says that "Gil Sr." sailed to Japan and return as part of the Army of Occupation, this clearly being the return. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe |
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USNS Marine Phoenix (T-AP 195) Shown in a photo backstamped 19 August 1951 before the conversion that increased her troop capacity, increased her cargo handling capability by adding a goalpost mast, and added to her safety-at-sea equipment in part by providing additional lifeboats. Photo by Harry R. Boersig, Aero-Marine Photos, Tacoma, Wash. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Marine Lynx (T-AP 194) In September 1951 before conversion. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Marine Adder (T-AP 193) In October 1951 before conversion while assigned to MSTS Northern Pacific. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Marine Lynx (T-AP 194) After a partial conversion, probably in 1952. She appears to have received an enhanced troop capacity and cargo handling capability (the goalpost mast), but she seems to have retained her original arrangement of lifeboats and liferafts except for the addition of liferafts under her bridge. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Marine Serpent (T-AP 202) In San Francisco on 30 October 1952 soon after her activation conversion there, which resembled the partial conversion given to Marine Lynx, above. She left service in 1955 and may not have received the additional lifeboats that the others did. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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USNS Marine Serpent (T-AP 202) Docking at the Army's Seattle Port of Embarkation on 21 February 1954 with Earl Capps on board. "Mom" is circled in ink on the pier. They later had dinner "strictly Army style" at the mess hall at Fort Lawton before he left for Arkansas via Kentucky, where he received his discharge. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe |
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USNS Marine Lynx (T-AP 194) In 1956 after a full conversion including the new lifeboat and liferaft arrangement. Photo No. Unknown (also NARA 80-G-1031950) Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Marine Adder (T-AP 193) In 1956 after a full conversion. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Marine Phoenix (T-AP 195) In the mid-1950s after a full conversion. Photo No. Unknown (also NARA 80-G-1031948) Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Marine Carp (T-AP 199) On 25 February 1957 after a full conversion. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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