USAT Thomas H. Barry
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| Name: | USAT Thomas H. Barry |
| Namesake: | US Army General Thomas H. Barry |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding |
| Launched: | 15 May 1930 |
| Christened: | SS Oriente |
| Acquired: | (By the Army): June 1941 |
| In service: | Commercial: 1930 - 1941 Army: 1941-1946? |
| Renamed: | Thomas H. Barry |
| Reclassified: | AP-45 |
| Fate: | Unknown |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 11,250 tons (lt) |
| Length: | 508 ft |
| Beam: | 70 ft 9 in |
| Draft: | 27 ft 3 in |
| Propulsion: | Steam turbines, twin screws |
| Speed: | 18 knots |
| Troops: | 3,609 |
| Complement: | 50 |
| Armament: | 2 x 5"/38 caliber guns, 4 x 3"/50 caliber guns, 8 x .50 calibre MG |
Thomas H. Barry was a troop transport that served with the US Army during World War II. Intended for transfer to the US Navy and assigned the hull number AP-45, she never served in that role but stayed an army troopship. Prior to her war service, she was the ocean liner SS Oriente.
[edit] Service history
SS Oriente—a steel-hulled, twin-screw passenger and cargo ship launched on 15 May 1930 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, for the New York and Cuba Mail and Steamship Company's Ward Line—was acquired by the War Department in June 1941 for use as an Army transport, who named her the USAT Thomas H. Barry.
On 29 September 1941, the Acting Chief of Naval Operations, Rear Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll, sent a memorandum to the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, listing a number of Army transports—including Thomas H. Barry—that were to be "eventually taken over by the Navy." Thomas H. Barry was later designated AP-45. However, the transport was never taken over by the Navy and remained under Army control through the end of World War II.
[edit] References
- Thomas H. Barry - DANFS Online.
- AP-45 Thomas H. Barry, Navsource Online.
- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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