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USS Lamar (APA-47)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Juliet - Victor - Hotel NJVH

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (5) - World War II Victory Medal
Bottom Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippines Liberation Medal (2)

Bayfield Class Attack Transport:

Authorized as AP-92, reclassified APA-47, 1 February 1943

Laid down, 31 March 1943, as a Maritime Commission type (C3-S-A2) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 431) at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS.

Launched, 28 August 1943

Acquired by the Navy, 10 November 1943

Placed in partial commission ad USS Lamar (APA-47), 10 November 1943 through 22 November 1943, LCDR. James H. Budd in command, for transit to her fitting out yard, Todd-Erie Basin, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Recommissioned USS Lamar (APA-47), 6 April 1944, CAPT. Bruce K. Culver in command

During WWII USS Lamar was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
TransRon Seventeen, COMO. T.B. Brittan USN (20);
TransDiv Fifty-One, CAPT. J. L. Allen USNR and participated in the following campaigns:

Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Marianas Islands operations Assault and occupation of Guam, 21 July to 28 1944	Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 to 5 April 1945
Leyte operations Leyte landings, Dulag, 20 October and 18 November 1944	Manila Bay-Bicol operations Zambales-Subic Bay, San Narciso landing, 29 to 30 January 1945
Luzon operations Lingayen Gulf landings, 9 January 1945

Following World War II USS Lamar was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 26 November to 2 December 1945

Returned to the Maritime Commission, 26 June 1946, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet

Decommissioned, 7 March 1946, at Beaumont, TX.

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1946

USS Lamar earned five battle stars for World War II service

Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 29 June 1946, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet

Merchant History

Leased to Luckenbach SS Corp. under a General Agency Agreement, 9 April 1948

Purchased by Luckenbach SS Corp., at Baltimore MD., 19 January 1949, for $55,713.00, renamed SS J.L. Luckenbach

Sold to Global Bulk Transportation Corp. in July 1959, renamed SS Evergreen State, owned by States Marine Lines

Final Disposition, sold, 27 May 1971, for scrapping in Taiwan to Tung Ho Steel Enterprise Corp.

Specifications:
Displacement 8,100 t.(lt), 16,100 t.(fl)
Length 492' 0"
Beam 69' 6"
Draft 26' 6"
Speed 16.4 kts. (trial)

Complement

Officers 56

Enlisted 497

Flag Accommodation

Officer 43

Enlisted 108

Troop Accommodations

Officers 80

Enlisted 1,598

Largest Boom Capacity 30 t.

Cargo Capacity 4,700 DWT

non-refrigerated 175,000 cu. ft

Boats

twelve LCVPs

four LCM (Mk-6)s

three LCP(L) (MK-IV)s

Armament

Two single 5"/38 cal dual purpose gun mounts, one fore and one aft

four twin 40mm AA gun mounts

eighteen single 20mm AA gun mounts

Fuel Capacities

NSFO 8,510 Bbls

Diesel 750 Bbls
Propulsion

one Westinghouse geared drive turbine

two Foster-Wheeler D-type boilers, 465psi 765°

double Westinghouse Main Reduction Gear

three turbo-drive Ship's Service Generators 250Kw 240V D.C.

single propeller, 8,500shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS Lamar (APA-47)
100304710	186k	*USS Lamar* (APA-47)** underway off New York City, 10 April 1944. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 32, Design 16D. The photo was taken by an aircraft of Naval Air Station New York. US Navy Bureau of Ships photo # 80-G-22409.	Robert Hurst
	76k	*USS Lamar* (APA-47)** underway, date and location unknown US Navy photo	George W. Jones
	179k	*USS Lamar* (APA-47)** underway, date and location unknown US Navy photo	George W. Jones
	71k	*USS Lamar* (APA-47) underway while a part of the Guam amphibious invasion force, July 1944. Photo taken from USS Ringgold (DD-500)**, Dwight Spayth collection.	John Chiquoine
	61k	*USS Lamar* (APA-47)** underway, date and location unknown US Navy photo	George W. Jones
	278k	Ex-*USS Lamar* (APA-47)** moored pierside at Maryland Drydock Co., Baltimore, MD. undergoing conversion for merchant service.	Jason Longo
	277k
	219k
Merchant Service Luckenbach Line States Marine SS Co.
	355k	Ex-*USS Lamar* (APA-47)** in merchant service in Luckenbach Line colors as SS J. L. Luckenbach underway, circa 1950s, location unknown	Gerhard Muller-Debus. Courtesy ©William Schell.
	447k	Ex-*USS Lamar* (APA-47)** in merchant service in States Marine Lines colors as SS Evergreen State berthed apparently at Naval Station Subic Bay, P.I. in the late 1960s.	Gerhard Muller-Debus. Courtesy ©William Schell.

USS Lamar (APA-47)
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

Commanding Officers
	LCDR. Budd, James Hodgeson USNR (Ferry Command)	10 November 1943 - 22 November 1943
	Decommissioned	22 November 1943 - 6 April 1944
01	CAPT. Culver, Burnett Kent, USN (USNA 1921-B)	6 April 1944 - 1 May 1945
02	CAPT. Rockwell, Joseph Perkins, USN (USNA 1921-B)	1 May 1945 - 1 December 1945
03	LCDR. Hughes, George N. USNR	1 December 1945 - 29 December 1945
04	CAPT. Hurd, Kenneth Charles, USN (USNA 1925) :RADM	29 December 1945 - 7 March 1946


Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

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