USS General J.H. McRae (AP - 149)

USS General J.H. McRae (AP - 149)

History
Name	USS General J.H. McRae (AP-149)
Builder	Kaiser Coy Inc, Richmond, California
Launched	26 Apr 1944
Completed	19 Jun 1944
In service	8 Aug 1944
Out of service	27 Feb 1946
In service	1946
Out of service	29 Oct 1954
Reclassified	T-AP-149, 1 March 1950
Fate	scrapped 1987
General characteristics
Type	General G. O. Squier-class transport ship
Tonnage	17,250 tons
Length	159.36m
Beam	21.79m
Depth	7.32m draft
Propulsion	single screw
Speed	17 knots (31km/h)
Capacity	3,343 troops plus 356 crew

Remarks

USS General J. H. McRae (AP-149) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship built for the United States Maritime Commission during World War II. During 1944 she sailed from US West Coast ports carrying troops to Honolulu, Hawaii and other Pacific Theater destinations. On 11 January 1945 she sailed for India where she picked up troops and delivered them to various South Pacific destinations. She also carried Australian troops from Townsville to Morotai in late April 1945.

She was decommissioned at New York City 27 February 1946 and was returned to War Shipping Administration (WSA) for peacetime operations as a United States Army Transport. She later served during the Korean War.

On 29 October 1954 the General J. H. McRae was inactivated and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Diego. Sold to commercial interests, her later names were SS Transhawaii, SS Agusdilla, SS Amco Voyager, and SS Voyager. Eventually sold for scrapping in Taiwan in October 1986

Townsville to Morotai, Netherlands East Indies 23 April - 1 May 1945

2/28th Battalion

• Harold Baldwin
• Raymond Victor Clough
• Thomas Stanley O'Meagher
• Frederick Joseph Powell
• Edward Arthur Sewell

2/32nd Battalion

• Arthur Gordon Fielder