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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- CIVILIAN SHIPS --

Sea Sturgeon (American C3 type Troop Transport, 1944)

SS Sea Sturgeon was a civil registry troopship converted from a standard C3 type freighter. Built at San Francisco, California, in 1944, she made her first round-trip voyage from the West Coast to the Southern Pacific war zone during July-December 1944. Subsequently she made a number of trips from Hawaii to the Central and Western Pacific and, following the August 1945 conclusion of World War II fighting, she also visited Japan. She returned to the U.S. West Coast in December 1945 and left there in early February 1946 for a long passage, via the Panama Canal, to England and France. Sea Sturgeon arrived at New York in March 1946 and was laid up in the James River, Virginia, in May of that year. In 1947 she was taken out of reserve and rejoined the commercial shipping trade under the name Hawaiian Farmer. The ship was scrapped in Taiwan in 1971.

This page features our only views of the SS Sea Sturgeon, a troop transport converted from a C3 type freighter.

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Photo #: NH 98701 SS Sea Sturgeon (American C3 type troopship, 1944) In San Francisco Bay, California, circa late 1945 or early 1946. Donation of Boatswain's Mate First Class Robert G. Tippins, USN (Retired), 2003. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 114KB; 740 x 545 pixels
Photo #: NH 98411 SS Sea Sturgeon (American Troopship, 1944) Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken circa 1944-1945. Copied from the book "Troopships of World War II", by Roland W. Charles. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 405 pixels

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Page made 22 March 2003
New image added 25 March 2003