Nicholas Peppas
31-08-2010, 05:06
Marine Carp
An unusual vessel that served the Greek waters for a little while… in the 1940s. She is referred to as a “semi-converted Liberty ship”
Here is the Miramar listing
IDNo: 5224754 Year: 1945
Name: MARINE CARP Keel: 6.12.44
Type: Passenger ship Launch Date: 5.7.45
Flag: USA Date of completion: 11.10.45
Tons: 12420 Link: 2391
DWT: 14863 Yard No: 509
Length overall: 159.4 Ship Design: C4-S-A3
LPP: 151.2 Country of build: USA
Beam: 21.8 Builder: Kaiser Co
Material of build: Location of yard: Vancouver, Wash.
Number of screws/Mchy/ Speed(kn): 1ST-17
Subsequent History: [1968 cv to cargo ship, 10654gt/16029dw] - 68 GREEN SPRINGS
Disposal Data: BU Kaohsiung 9.7.79 [Chin Ho Fa Steel & Iron Co]
Greek ad from December 10, 1947
104013
Photos and images
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http://www.ibiblio.org/maritime/photolibrary/displayimage.php?pid=24410
104015
http://www.ibiblio.org/maritime/photolibrary/displayimage.php?album=8837&pid=24409#top_display_media
Marine Carp
She is best described here http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22199.htm where you will find also several photos as Marine Carp and as the freighter Green Springs
• Marine Adder Class Transport: Laid down, 6 December 1944, as a Maritime Commission (C4-S-A3) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 2362) at Kaiser Co., Inc., Vancouver, WA.
• Launched, 5 July 1945
• Delivered to Matson Navigation Co., 11 October 1945, at Portland, OR.
• Acquired by American Export Lines, 22 August 1946, at New York, N.Y.
• Returned to the Maritime Commission for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall, VA., 23 May 1949
• Transferred to the National Defense Reserve Flee, Hudson River Group, 31 August 1951
• Acquired by the US Navy, 17 March 1952
• Assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS), and placed in service as USNS Marine Carp (T-AP-199), 15 September 1952, at Baltimore, MD.
• During the Korean War USNS Marine Carp participated in the following campaigns:
• Placed out of service, 9 October 1957, and returned to the Maritime Administration
• Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, at Beaumont, TX., 11 September 1958
• Struck from the Naval Register, 11 September 1958
• Sold for commercial operations, 20 July 1967, to Central Gulf Steamship Corp., renamed SS Green Springs
• Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 13 July 1979, to Chin Ho Fa Steel & Iron Co., Ltd., Taiwan
Specifications:
Displacement 6,720 t.(lt) 10,210 t.(fl)
Length 523'
Beam 72'
Draft 26'
Speed 18 kts.
Cargo Capacity 53,000 (cu ft)
Troop Accommodations 3,451
Armament none
Propulsion steam turbine, single propeller, 13,750 hp
An unusual vessel that served the Greek waters for a little while… in the 1940s. She is referred to as a “semi-converted Liberty ship”
Here is the Miramar listing
IDNo: 5224754 Year: 1945
Name: MARINE CARP Keel: 6.12.44
Type: Passenger ship Launch Date: 5.7.45
Flag: USA Date of completion: 11.10.45
Tons: 12420 Link: 2391
DWT: 14863 Yard No: 509
Length overall: 159.4 Ship Design: C4-S-A3
LPP: 151.2 Country of build: USA
Beam: 21.8 Builder: Kaiser Co
Material of build: Location of yard: Vancouver, Wash.
Number of screws/Mchy/ Speed(kn): 1ST-17
Subsequent History: [1968 cv to cargo ship, 10654gt/16029dw] - 68 GREEN SPRINGS
Disposal Data: BU Kaohsiung 9.7.79 [Chin Ho Fa Steel & Iron Co]
Greek ad from December 10, 1947
104013
Photos and images
104014
http://www.ibiblio.org/maritime/photolibrary/displayimage.php?pid=24410
104015
http://www.ibiblio.org/maritime/photolibrary/displayimage.php?album=8837&pid=24409#top_display_media
Marine Carp
She is best described here http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22199.htm where you will find also several photos as Marine Carp and as the freighter Green Springs
• Marine Adder Class Transport: Laid down, 6 December 1944, as a Maritime Commission (C4-S-A3) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 2362) at Kaiser Co., Inc., Vancouver, WA.
• Launched, 5 July 1945
• Delivered to Matson Navigation Co., 11 October 1945, at Portland, OR.
• Acquired by American Export Lines, 22 August 1946, at New York, N.Y.
• Returned to the Maritime Commission for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall, VA., 23 May 1949
• Transferred to the National Defense Reserve Flee, Hudson River Group, 31 August 1951
• Acquired by the US Navy, 17 March 1952
• Assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS), and placed in service as USNS Marine Carp (T-AP-199), 15 September 1952, at Baltimore, MD.
• During the Korean War USNS Marine Carp participated in the following campaigns:
• Placed out of service, 9 October 1957, and returned to the Maritime Administration
• Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, at Beaumont, TX., 11 September 1958
• Struck from the Naval Register, 11 September 1958
• Sold for commercial operations, 20 July 1967, to Central Gulf Steamship Corp., renamed SS Green Springs
• Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 13 July 1979, to Chin Ho Fa Steel & Iron Co., Ltd., Taiwan
Specifications:
Displacement 6,720 t.(lt) 10,210 t.(fl)
Length 523'
Beam 72'
Draft 26'
Speed 18 kts.
Cargo Capacity 53,000 (cu ft)
Troop Accommodations 3,451
Armament none
Propulsion steam turbine, single propeller, 13,750 hp