UPSHUR T-AP 198
Ship Name and Designation History
This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.
- USNS UPSHUR T-AP-198
Acquired by the US Navy December 1 1952
Placed in service by the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) December 1 1952
Placed out of service (date unknown)
Transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) April 2 1973
Loaned to Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, ME April 2 1973, Renamed "T/V State of Maine"
Returned to MARAD in 1990 for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Mobile, AL.
Assigned to the US Coast Guard as a testing platform for the US Coast Guard Fire & Safety Test Detachment, Mobile, AL
Barrett Class Transport
Keel Laid "SS President Hayes", a Maritime Commission type (P2-S1-DN3) hull September 1 1949
for American President Lines at New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, NJ
Launched January 1 1951 - Reassigned to the US Navy and renamed "UPSHUR" while under conversion
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- Covers Page 1 (1972)
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Locy Type 2 |
1972-01-11
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Other Information
NAMESAKE - Major General William Peterkin Upshur, USMC (October 28 1881 - July 21 1943)
Upshur graduated from the Virginia Military Institute and received a commission as Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps on February 1 1904. Over the ensuing three and one-half decades, Upshur rose in rank and eventually became a Major General on October 1 1939.
After various tours of sea and shore duties between 1904 - 1915, his next tour of duty—in Haiti—Upshur won the Medal of Honor. While his detachment of mounted Marines forded a river in a deep ravine, they came under the fire of some 400 Haitian Caco bandits from an ambush. Leading his men forward through the heavy fusillade, Upshur succeeded in establishing a defensive position which protected his command for the night. At daybreak on the folowing day, October 24 1915, Upshur led a fierce counterattack which caught the Cacos unawares and routed them. This action materially aided the Marines in their eventual capture of the Haitian stronghold, Fort Dipitie.
Upshur was a veteran of World War I and other sea and shore duties, eventually ending up as the Commander, Headquarters of the Department of the Pacific, at San Diego on December 9 1941.
Major General Upshur died as a result of injuries suffered in a plane crash near Sitka, Alaska, on July 21 1943.
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