SS Transcolorado
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| History | |
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| Name: | SS Marine Adder |
| Owner: | War Shipping Administration |
| Operator: | American President Lines |
| Port of registry: |
 Portland, Oregon
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| Builder: | |
| Yard number: | 46 |
| Laid down: | 7 March 1945 |
| Launched: | 16 May 1945 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. L. Jorstad |
| Completed: | 5 October 1945 |
| Out of service: | 1947 |
| Identification: | U.S. O/N 248806, IMO 5224728 |
| Fate: | laid up in NDRF, 1947 |
| History | |
 United States
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| Name: | USNS Marine Adder (T-AP-193) |
| Acquired: | 24 July 1950 |
| Out of service: | 8 June 1957 |
| Fate: | laid up in NDRF, June 1957 |
| History | |
| Name: | SS Transcolorado |
| Owner: | Hudson Waterways Corporation |
| Port of registry: |
(United States) |
| Acquired: | 4 August 1967 |
| Refit: | converted to cargo ship, 1967–68 |
| Reclassified: | T-AK-2005, as chartered vessel for MSC, 1968 |
| Fate: | scrapped, May 1988 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Marine Adder-class transport |
| Displacement: | 10,210 long tons (10,370 t) |
| Length: | 523 ft (159 m) |
| Beam: | 72 ft (22 m) |
| Draft: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
| Troops: | 3,674 |
USNS Marine Adder (T-AP–193) was a troop ship for the United States Navy in the 1950s. She was built in 1945 for the United States Maritime Commission as SS Marine Adder, a Type C4-S-A3 troop ship, by the Kaiser Company during World War II. In 1950, the ship was transferred to the Military Sea Transport Service of the U.S. Navy as a United States Naval Ship staffed by a civilian crew. After ending her naval service in 1957, she entered the National Defense Reserve Fleet, but was sold for commercial use in 1967. Renamed SS Transcolorado, she was chartered by the Military Sealift Command as a civilian cargo ship designated T-AK-2005.
Marine Adder was laid down under a United States Maritime Commission contract by the Kaiser Company of Richmond, California on 7 March 1945 and launched on 16 May 1945 sponsored by Mrs. L. Jorstad. The ship was delivered to the War Shipping Administration for operation by its agent American President Lines on 5 October 1945.Marine Adder operated as a troop transport allocated to Army requirements.
Marine Adder departed San Francisco early in November and sailed to Saipan where she embarked returning servicemen. She arrived at San Pedro, California in early December, then sailed on a second trooplift on 29 December. She steamed to the Marianas, the Philippines, Korea, and Okinawa before returning to Seattle in March 1946. Between April and June she completed a Pacific run to Calcutta, India, and to Shanghai, China. On 13 February 1948 San Francisco Marine Adder was placed in the Maritime Commission Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay, California.
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