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| Name | USS Henry T Allen (APA 15) |
| Builder/Built | 1921 New York Shipbuilding |
| Type | Passenger / cargo |
| Displacement | 13,529 tons |
| Speed | 16 knots |
Remarks
USS Henry T. Allen was built as Wenatchee for the United States Shipping Board, one of the planned World War I troop transports converted during construction into passenger and cargo vessels. Operated by the Pacific Steamship Company on the Yokohama, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila route, she was renamed President Jefferson and operated until 1938 when she was laid up. Acquired in 1940 by the Army Transport Service, she was transferred in December 1941 to the Navy. Used in the US landings in Northern Africa, she moved to the Pacific theatre in early 1943 where she operated primarily between Australian and New Guinea ports until March 1944. Following the end of the war she returned to the US and in March 1948 sold to Boston Metals and scrapped.
Soldiers carried
Cairns to Milne Bay
Embarked 3rd, sailed 5th