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USS Ganymede - Wikipedia

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USS Ganymede (AK-104) (broadside plan view) in San Francisco Bay, 16 August 1943.
United States
Name	James W. Nye Ganymede
Namesake	James W. Nye The moon Ganymede
Ordered	as a Type EC2-S-C1 hull, MCE hull 1571^[1]
Builder	Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond, California
Yard number	1571^[1]
Way number	3^[1]
Laid down	16 May 1943
Launched	8 June 1943
Sponsored by	Mrs. William C. Dalby
Acquired	23 June 1943
Commissioned	31 July 1943
Decommissioned	15 April 1946
Stricken	1 August 1947
Identification	Hull symbol: AK-104 Code letters: NTNH
Fate	Sold for scrapping, 19 March 1973
General characteristics ^[2]
Class and type	Crater-class cargo ship
Displacement	4,023 long tons (4,088 t) (standard) 14,550 long tons (14,780 t) (full load)
Length	441 ft 6 in (134.57 m)
Beam	56 ft 11 in (17.35 m)
Draft	28 ft 4 in (8.64 m)
Installed power	2 × Combustion Engineering header-type boilers, 220psi 450° 2,500 shp (1,900 kW)
Propulsion	1 × Joshua Hendy vertical triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine 1 × shaft
Speed	12.5 kn (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph)
Capacity	7,800 t (7,700 long tons) DWT 444,206 cu ft (12,578.5 m³) (non-refrigerated)
Complement	219
Armament	1 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber dual-purpose gun 2 × 40 mm (1.6 in) 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft (AA) gun mounts 6 × 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon cannons AA gun mounts

USS Ganymede (AK-104) was a Crater-class cargo ship commissioned by the US Navy for service in World War II. She was responsible for delivering troops, goods and equipment to locations in the war zone. Named after the largest of the moons of Jupiter, Ganymede was the only ship of the Navy to bear this name.

Construction

Ganymede, was laid down 16 May 1943, as liberty ship SS James W. Nye, MCE hull 1571, by the Permanente Metals Corporation, Yard No.2, Richmond, California, under Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract; authorized for acceptance by the US Navy on 22 May 1943; classified as a cargo ship, AK-104, and renamed Ganymede on 27 May 1943. She was launched 8 June 1943; sponsored by Mrs. William C. Dalby of Oakland, California; assigned to the General Engineering & Dry Dock Co. for conversion on 19 June 1943; acquired 23 June 1943; commissioned 31 July 1943.^[3]

Service history

After shakedown training out of Oakland, Ganymede departed San Francisco, 28 August 1943, carrying military cargo to Pallikulo Bay, New Hebrides, and to Queensland, Melbourne, and Sydney, Australia.^[3] The ship was one of five Navy manned Liberties assigned 8 December 1943 to the Southwest Pacific Area for service under operational control of the Commander, Seventh Fleet in meeting US Army requirements.^[4] Assigned to the Seventh Fleet Service Force, she sailed from Queensland on 29 November 1943, with fuel, supplies, and passengers for Milne and Langemak Bays, New Guinea and thence returned to Australia.^[3]

During the next 12 months she transported military cargo of many types and provided limited passenger service from ports of Australia to bases in New Guinea, including Humboldt Bay, Milne Bay, Cape Sudest and Tanahmerah Bay. Her itinerary was expanded in February 1945, to include Leyte, Manila, Subic Bay and Samar in the Philippines, with occasional calls at Manus, Admiralty Islands.^[3]

Ganymede continued her busy Australia–New Guinea–Philippines–Australia supply circuit until 20 November when she departed Brisbane, Australia for the United States arriving San Francisco 18 December. She remained in port until 25 February 1946, when she sailed for Pearl Harbor to take part in special explosive tests prior to her decommissioning there 15 April 1946.^[3]

Post-war decommissioning

Towed back to San Francisco, her name was struck from the Navy List 1 August 1947, and she was returned to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) on 1 October 1947, and entered the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay, California.^[3] She was sold on 19 March 1973, to Tung Ho Steel Enterprise Corporation, of Taiwan, for $137,000. She was delivered on 16 April 1973.^[5]

Awards

Ganymede crew members were eligible for the following medals:^[2]

Notes

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c Kaiser No. 2 2010.
^ ^a ^b Navsource 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f DANFS 2016.
^ Masterson 1949, pp. 359, 390 (fn 61).
^ MARAD.

Bibliography

Online resources

"Ganymede (AK-104)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. 17 August 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2016. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
"Kaiser Permanente No. 2, Richmond CA". ShipbuildingHistory.com. 13 October 2010. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
"USS Ganymede (AK-104)". Navsource.org. 14 September 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
"GANYMEDE (AK-104)". United States Department of Transportation. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
Masterson, Dr. James R. (1949). U. S. Army Transportation In The Southwest Pacific Area 1941-1947. Washington, D. C.: Transportation Unit, Historical Division, Special Staff, U. S. Army.

External links

Photo gallery of Ganymede (AK-104) at NavSource Naval History

Crater-class cargo ships

List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy

v t e MARCOM ships built by Kaiser Shipyards, Richmond Shipyards, Richmond, California during World War II
Crater-class cargo ships Type EC2-S-C1 ships	Crater (ex-SS John James Audubon) Adhara (ex-SS G. H. Corliss) Aludra (ex-SS Robert T. Lincoln) Arided (ex-SS Noah H. Swayne) Carina (ex-SS David Davis) Cassiopeia (ex-SS Melville W. Fuller) Celeno (ex-SS Redfield Proctor) Cetus (ex-SS George B. Cortelyou) Deimos (ex-SS Chief Ouray) Draco (ex-SS John M. Palmer) Albireo (ex-SS John G. Nicolay) Cor Caroli (ex-SS Betsy Ross) Eridanus (ex-SS Luther Burbank) Etamin (ex-SS Isaac Babbitt) Lyra (ex-SS Cyrus Hamlin) Ganymede (ex-SS James W. Nye) Hyperion (ex-SS Christopher C. Andrews) Allioth (ex-SS James Rowan) Alkes (ex-SS Increase A. Lapham) Grumium (ex-SS William G. McAdoo) Azimech (ex-SS Mary Patten) Alnitah (ex-SS John A. Logan) Leonis (ex-SS Key Pittman) Venus (ex-SS William Williams) Cheleb (ex-SS Lyman J. Gage) Prince Georges (ex-SS Richard March Hoe)
Type EC2-S-C1 ships Liberty Ships	James Otis John Adams Kit Carson Zachary Taylor Anthony Wayne Timothy Pickering Stephen Hopkins Samuel Huntington William Ellery Lewis Morris John Wise George Ross James Smith George Taylor William Whipple Oliver Wolcott Francis Lewis John Morton George Read Roger Sherman Richard Stockton Matthew Thornton William Williams Eli Whitney Irvin MacDowell George B. McClellan Joseph Hooker Ambrose E. Burnside Peter J. McGuire Philip H. Sheridan David Bushnell John Fitch James Rumsey John Stevens Samuel F. B. Morse Cyrus H. McCormick James B. Francis Richard Jordan Gatling John James Audubon John F. Appleby Charles M. Hall George Westinghouse John Bartram G. H. Corliss Richard March Hoe Elihu Thomson George B. Selden Nathaniel Bowditch Charles M. Conrad John B. Floyd Joseph Holt John M. Schofield John A. Rawlins George W. McCrary Alexander Ramsey Robert T. Lincoln William C. Endicott Redfield Proctor Robert E. Peary David Gaillard Henry J. Raymond William G. McAdoo Leslie M. Shaw George B. Cortelyou Frederick Jackson Turner Joseph G. Cannon George Rogers Clark Louis Joliet Samuel de Champlain John A. Logan Pere Marquette John M. Palmer Richard Yates Nancy Hanks Edward P. Costigan Sieur Duluth Richard Henderson Benjamin Bonneville Charles Wilkes Justin S. Morrill Thomas Kearns Vitus Bering Dan Beard Jane A. Delano John R. Park James B. Hickok Hiram S. Maxim William B. Ogden David Dudley Field Charles P. Steinmetz David Starr Jordan Jacques Laramie Lucy Stone Frances E. Willard Betsy Ross Abigail Adams Elizabeth Blackwell S. Hall Young J. H. Kinkaid Alexander Baranof Sheldon Jackson Edward Rowland Sill Joaquin Miller Lew Wallace O. Henry F. Marion Crawford Joseph Rodman Drake William Dean Howells John Howard Payne Andrew Furuseth Moses Rogers William K. Vanderbilt James J. Hill John Rutledge William Cushing John Blair Robert H. Harrison John McLean Noah H. Swayne Samuel F. Miller David Davis Morrison R. Waite Melville W. Fuller Stanley Matthews David J. Brewer Pierre LaClede Frederic Remington Walter Colton J. Sterling Morton George H. Dern Key Pittman Chief Ouray George S. Boutwell Benjamin H. Bristow William Windom Charles J. Folger Charles S Fairchild John G. Carlisle Lyman J. Gage William H. Aspinwall Grenville M. Dodge Julien Dubuque Adoniram Judson John G. Nicolay Edward Bates Josiah B. Grinnell Henry H. Richardson Nathaniel Currier James Ives Thomas Corwin James Guthrie Howell Cobb Hugh McCulloch SS Matthew Lyon George D. Prentice William A. Jones Homer Lea Anson Burlingame Louis Hennepin Josiah Snelling George Washington Carver Luther Burbank George M. Pullman Wilbur Wright William Thornton Glenn Curtiss SS George Eastman Cyrus W. Field Isaac Babbitt Charles E. Duryea Benjamin Holt Oliver Evans Elisha Graves Otis Knute Rockne James J. Corbett Walter Camp Hobart Baker Christy Mathewson George Gipp Matthew B. Brady Edward A. MacDowell Joseph Smith Tecumseh John L. Sullivan Geronimo James A. Bayard Mary Cassatt Michael Pupin Cyrus Hamlin Henry Bergh John Carroll Jonathan P. Dolliver James Harlan Robert Lucas Edwin T. Meredith Maria Sanford Christopher C. Andrews Leonidas Merritt Floyd B. Olson Irving M. Scott Joseph S. Emery George Berkeley Adolph Sutro John W Mackay James W. Nye William W. Mayo John Lind Ole E. Rolvaag John T. McMillan Fremont Older Conrad Kohrs Stephen Crane William Beaumont John H. Rosseter Henry Dodge John S. Sargent Charles Robinson Increase A. Lapham Clarence King William Prouse M. H. De Young Sambridge (ex-SS John E. Wilkie) John Ross Francis G. Newlands Ambrose Bierce James Fergus William N Byers Joshua Hendy Marcus Daly John Constantine William F. Vilas Myron T. Herrick Ring Lardner Horace Wells Winfield S. Stratton James Lick Floyd Bennett David Belasco John S. Bassett Joseph A. Holmes Luther S. Kelly Charles N. McGroarty Thomas M. Cooley John Evans Samovar (ex-SS Frank D. Phinney) William H. Allen Melville E. Stone Henry V. Alvarado Sambre (ex-SS George Inness) H. G. Blasdel Thomas C. Power William Matson Brander Matthews William Keith Joseph K. Toole Jeremiah M. Daily Mary Patten Hiram Bingham William D Burnham Antoine Saugrain Stephen W Kearny James Rowan Richard Moczkowski John Reed Vachel Lindsay Michael Casey Murat Halstead Henry Wells James J. 0'Kelly Reinhold Richter William Sharon John G. North Simon Bamberger Cyrus T. Brady Samuel Brannon Chief Charlot Casper S. Yost William J. Palmer Peter Cooper Hewitt Ethan A. Hitchcock Mary Bickerdyke William W. Campbell Michael C. Kerr Harry Leon Wilson John W. Meldrum Clyde L. Seavey William A. Coulter Louis Pasteur William C. Ralston Lawrence Gianella George H. Powell Jose J Acosta Heber M. Creel Millen Griffith Otis Skinner John Sherman Henry R. Schoolcraft Joseph E Wing Harriet Monroe Frank J. Cuhel Daulton Mann John Colter Mary M. Dodge Emile Berliner Charles G. Coutant John W. Hoyt Wayne MacVeagh Samwash (ex-SS Harmon Judson) Henry M. Teller Jeremiah M. Rusk Benjamin H. Brewster Charles E. Smith Samore (ex-SS Charles Devens) Louis A. Sengteller Donald M. Dickinson Augustus Thomas George Sterling William H. Moody Henry C. Payne George Von L. Meyer James D. Phelan Otto Mears Frank Norris Francis M. Smith Frank A. Munsey Frederic A. Eilers William S. Clark Samuel W. Williston Edgar W. Nye Frank C. Emerson John W. Foster Norman Hapgood Bernardo O'Higgins Norman E. Mack Henry H. Blood John Swett Vernon L. Parrington George K. Fitch Francis A. Wardwell Kate Douglas Wiggin David Hewes Ferdinand A Silcox Sara Teasdale James King R. F. Peckham Peter Trumble Rowe Keith Vawter James G. Maguire Robert Louis Stevenson Francisco M Quinones Ferdinand Westdahl William F. Empey Alexander Majors Jan Pieterszoon Coen Augustin Daly James H. Breasted Walter Wyman John Roach Henry Adams George Coggeshall John lsaacson Silvestre Escalante George Clement Perkins Gilbert M. Hitchcock Henry White Emmet D. Boyle Alexander Woolcott E. A. Christenson Henry J. Waters William E Ritter Joe Harris Mello Franco William Allen White Stephen Hopkins Cecil G. Sellers Norman J. Colman William Sproule John L. Stoddard Frank H. Dodd Mary Walker J. Maurice Thompson Walter Williams Mary A. Livermore George Crile Ralph T. O'Neil George B. McFarland William H. Clagett Jose Pedro Varela Samuel L. Cobb Edward P. Ripley Charles J. Colden Henry T. Scott Ovid Butler Jay Cooke Terry E. Stephenson Thomas F. Hunt George E. Goodfellow Justo Arosemena Samuel Gompers Benjamin Warner Seaman A. Knapp James Rolph Antonin Dvorak Albert A. Robinson Richard B. Moore Alexander Wilson Jose C. Barbosa Alexander Mitchell J. C. Osgood Frank H. Evers James Oliver Curwood Edward G. Acheson Francis Wilson Claus Spreckles David Lubin Frank J. Sprague Jean P. Chouteau Julia L. Dumont Robert G. Cousins George B. Porter William Ford Nichols Lillian Wald George Luks William Vaughn Moody Oliver Kelley Abram S. Hewitt William Peffer Ada Rehan Uriah M Rose John W Burgess Moses G. Farer Alfred C. True William B. Leeds Francisco Morazan William D. Boyce W. B. Rodgers Carl B. Eielson Alice H. Rice Elwood Haynes Nathan S. Davis Morgan Robertson John Hope Daniel G. Reid Cornelius Vanderbilt James Devereux John H. Thomas Percy E. Foxworth Carl G. Barth Edwin C. Musick Sara Bache Hans Heg Franz Sigel Arthur A. Penn Allen Johnson George A. Pope Joseph J. Kinyoun Juan Pablo Duarte John F. Shafroth Cleveland Forbes Sidney H. Short E. A. Bryan Henry M. Stephens Willet M. Hays Edward E. Hale Charles John Seghers William J. Gray Amerigo Vespucci George Middlemas Robert D. Carey H. Weir Cook Louis Weule Jose M. Morelos Benjamin Waterhouse William Schirmer J. S. Hutchinson Edward S. Hough E. A. Burnett Wallace R. Farrington Louis Sloss Toussaint L'Ouverture Louis Sullivan Lucien Labaudt James A. Drain Thomas F. Flaherty Robert S. Abbott Benjamin Carpenter Charlotte Cushman Henry Meiggs Mariscal Sucre
Boulder Victory-class cargo ships Type VC2-S-AP2 ships	Boulder Victory Provo Victory Las Vegas Victory Manderson Victory Bedford Victory Mayfield Victory Newcastle Victory Bucyrus Victory Red Oak Victory Lakewood Victory Sgt. Andrew Miller (ex-SS Radcliffe Victory) Sgt. Archer T. Gammon (ex-SS Yale Victory) Sgt. Morris E. Crain (ex-SS Mills Victory) Private Joe E. Mann (ex-SS Owensboro Victory) Sgt. Truman Kimbro (ex-SS Hastings Victory)
Type VC2-S-AP2 ships Victory Ships	Legion Victory Salina Victory Hastings Victory Elko Victory Durango Victory Devils Lake Victory Berkeley Victory Anchorage Victory Colorado Springs Victory Muncie Victory Elgin Victory Massillon Victory Hannibal Victory Beatrice Victory Halaula Victory Logan Victory Clearwater Victory Anniston Victory Moline Victory Medina Victory Princeton Victory Bowdoin Victory Wesleyan Victory Xavier Victory Mercer Victory Oberlin Victory Tulane Victory Wake Forest Victory Denison Victory St. John's Victory Virginia City Victory Brigham Victory Hobbs Victory El Reno Victory Lahaina Victory MacMurray Victory Northeastern Victory Fenn Victory Hobart Victory Catawba Victory Hamilton Victory Hillsdale Victory Ripon Victory Carthage Victory Newberry Victory Enid Victory San Mateo Victory Greeley Victory Berwyn Victory Battle Creek Victory Great Falls Victory Lakeland Victory Owensboro Victory Waltham Victory Burbank Victory Gretna Victory Laredo Victory Harvard Victory Yale Victory Middlebury Victory DePauw Victory Bucknell Victory Grinnell Victory Mount Holyoke Victory Duke Victory Fordham Victory Citadel Victory Berea Victory St. Lawrence Victory Central Victory Swarthmore Victory Carleton Victory Loyola Victory Purdue Victory Mills Victory Barnard Victory Radcliffe Victory Drexel Victory Alfred Victory Pan American Victory Trinity Victory Park Victory Fisk Victory Grove City Victory Hope Victory Lafayette Victory Marquette Victory Hunter Victory Augustana Victory Berry Victory Drake Victory Phillips Victory New World Victory Adelphi Victory Drury Victory Allegheny Victory Earlham Victory Asbury Victory Canton Victory Lindenwood Victory
Greenville Victory-class cargo ship VC2-S-AP3 ship	Haiti Victory
Norwalk-class cargo ship Type VC2-S-AP3 cargo ship	Victoria (ex-SS Ethiopia Victory)
Type VC2-S-AP3 cargo ships	Australia Victory Ethiopia Victory India Victory Iraq Victory Costa Rica Victory Cuba Victory Honduras Victory Haiti Victory Guatemala Victory Nicaragua Victory
Haskell-class attack transports Type VC2-S-AP5 ships	Sarasota Sherburne Sibley Mifflin Talladega Tazewell Telfair Missoula Montrose Mountrail Natrona Navarro Neshoba New Kent Noble Okaloosa Okanogan Oneida Pickaway Pitt Randall Bingham
General G. O. Squier-class transport ships Type C4-S-A1 ships	General G. O. Squier General T. H. Bliss General J. R. Brooke General O. H. Ernst General R. L. Howze General W. M. Black General H. L. Scott General S. D. Sturgis General C. G. Morton General R. E. Callan General M. B. Stewart General A. W. Greely General C. H. Muir General H. B. Freeman General H. F. Hodges General Harry Taylor General W. F. Hase General E. T. Collins General M. L. Hersey General J. H. McRae General M. M. Patrick General W. C. Langfitt General Omar Bundy General R. M. Blatchford General LeRoy Eltinge General A. W. Brewster General D. E. Aultman General C. C. Ballou General W. G. Haan General Stuart Heintzelman
Marine Adder-class transport ship Type C4-S-A3 ship	Marine Adder
Type C4-S-A3 ships	Marine Perch Marine Swallow
Type C4-S-A4 ships	Marine Leopard Marine Snapper
LST-1-class tank landing ships Type S3-M-K2 ships	LST-476 LST-477 / LST(H)-477 LST-478 LST-479 LST-480 LST-481 LST-482 / LST(H)-482 / Branch County LST-483 / Brewster County LST-484 LST-485 LST-486 / LST(H)-486 LST-487 LST-488 / LST(H)-488 / T-LST-488
Achelous-class repair ships Type S2-S2-AQ1 ships	Amycus (ex-LST-489) Agenor (ex-LST-490)
Tacoma-class patrol frigates Type S2-S2-AQ1 ships	Tacoma Sausalito Hoquiam Pasco Albuquerque Everett Pocatello Brownsville Grand Forks Casper Pueblo Grand Island
Alamosa-class cargo ships Type C1-M-AV1 ships	Alamosa Alcona Amador Antrim Autauga Beaverhead Beltrami Blount Brevard Bullock Cabell Caledonia Fairfield Faribault Fentress Flagler
Miscellaneous Auxiliary Type C1-M-AV1 ships	Sgt. Curtis F. Shoup (ex-Spindle Eye)
Type C1-M-AV1 ships	Square Sinnet Gunner's Knot Mooring Knot Marlingspike Hitch Terminal Knot Spool Sinnet Reeving Eye

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