HENRY GIBBINS T-AP 183

Ship Name and Designation History

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Transport Keel Laid 23 August 1941 as SS Biloxi Launched 11 November 1942 USAT HENRY GIBBINS Transferred to the US Army Transportation Corps, and commissioned 27 February 1943 USNS HENRY GIBBINS T-AP-183 Transferred to the US Navy, 1 March 1950 and Placed in Service Placed out of Service 2 December 1959 Struck from the Naval Register (Date Unknown) EMPIRE STATE IV (Training Ship) Transferred by MARCOM 1959 to the New York Maritime Academy and renamed BAY STATE III (Training Ship) Transferred to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in 1973 and renamed Damaged by ice in the winter of 1976-77 suffering serious damage to her hull plates Condemned by the USCG and returned to MARAD in 1978 for disposal Scrapped in 1983 after suffering an engine room fire

 

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Locy Type 2 10949 Branch San Juan, Puerto Rico

1955-06-24

The ship had no postal facilities.

 

Other Information

USNS HENRY GIBBINS earned the American Campaign Medal, the Europe-Africa- Middle East Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal and the National Defense Service Medal during her Naval career.

NAMESAKE - Major General Henry Gibbins, USA (20 May 1877 - 8 April 1941)
        Gibbins was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His first connection with the Army came in May 1898, when he joined the Third Tennessee Infantry, U. S. Volunteers, and served with it, as First Lieutenant, until 31 January 1899. His next service was as Second Lieutenant and First Lieutenant with the Thirty-First Infantry, U. S. Volunteers, from 15 July 1899, to 18 June 1901. On 18 September 1901, General Gibbins accepted an appointment in the Regular Army as Second Lieutenant in the Tenth Cavalry. From November 1901, to June 1902, he served with the Tenth Cavalry in Cuba and Nebraska. For the succeeding seven years, until September, he served with the Ninth Cavalry in Washington, Kansas, the Philippine Islands and Wyoming. In September 1909, General Gibbins entered the Mounted Service School and graduated the following August. For more than two years, from September 1910, to December 1912, he was on the faculty of the University of Tennessee as Professor of Military Science and Tactics. His next service was with the Ninth Cavalry in Arizona from January 1913, to June 1915. From July 1915, to April 1916, he attended the Army School of the Line. Upon graduation, Gibbins joined the Seventh Cavalry Regiment, to which he had been transferred on 15 November 1915, and served with it during the Punitive Expedition in Mexico. He returned to the United States in January 1917, and was assigned to duty as Adjutant at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In December of the same year he was sent to Newport News, Virginia, to command the Animal Embarkation Depot until October 1918. In October 1918, he served with the Remount Division, Purchase, Storage and Traffic. General Staff Corps. This assignment lasted until March 1919, when he was ordered to Keogh Quartermaster Intermediate Depot (former Remount Depot) as Commanding Officer. In November 1922, he was recalled to Washington as Executive Officer of the Army War College, which position he filled until August 1925. From 10 October 1925 to 2 June 1927, General Gibbins served as Post Quartermaster, Presidio of Monterey, California. From there he was sent to Hawaii, where he served as Quartermaster, Hawaiian Department, until October 1927; then as Assistant to the Department Quartermaster to August 1929, and as Quartermaster Supply Officer, Hawaiian General Depot, to June, 1930. From September 1930 to September 1934, General Gibbins was assigned to duty as Executive Officer, Office of The Quartermaster General, He then served with the Organized Reserves of the Ninth Corps Area. On 1 April 1936, Gibbins became Quartermaster General. For more than a year prior he has served as Chief of the Transportation Division. Major General Gibbins died on 8 April 1941 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

 

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