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52k | Post card image of SS Conte Biancamano underway, date and location unknown. | Tommy Trampp | |
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142k | Lloyd Sabaudo post card images of SS Conte Biancamano at anchor, date and location unknown. | Tommy Trampp | |
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73k | SS Conte Biancamano underway, date and location unknown. | Tommy Trampp | |
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147k | SS Conte Biancamano main dining room | Tommy Trampp | |
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149k | SS Conte Biancamano advertisement | Tommy Trampp | |
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130k | SS Conte Biancamano at Balboa in the Canal Zone, 11 June 1940. The Italian liner arrived there, 5 June 1940, and was ordered by Rome to delay her scheduled transit of the Canal enroute Gibraltar and Genoa from Chile because Italy was about to declare war on Britain. Canal Zone police were put on board to prevent sabotage, civil debt suits were filed against the ship, and on 27 June 1940 she was moved to an anchorage in Limon Bay near Cristobal. Photo courtesy Shipscribe.com |
Mike Green | |
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134k | 5 April 1941 Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone Photo caption: "The 23,225-ton Italian liner Comte Biancamano [later Hermitage (AP 54)], as she was taken over by U.S. Naval units here March 30, by order of the U.S. Government. Alongside is the USS Mallard (ASR-4) from which a boarding party went on the liner, one of the twenty-eight Italian ships seized in U.S. Territorial waters. Five hundred members of the crew are to be transferred to New York, it was learned yesterday." Wide World photo |
Tommy Trampp | |
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146k | Stewardesses from the seized Italian Liner SS Conte Biancamano seized by US authorities in the Panama Canal Zone, 30 March 1941, reached Brooklyn aboard USAT Leonard Wood, 10 April 1941. Associated Press Photo. | Tommy Trampp | |
| USS Hermitage (AP-54) |
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100k | Hermitage (AP-54) ex-SS Conte Biancamano moored pierside at William Cramp & Sons, Shipbuilders, Philadelphia. PA., 3 April 1942,
shortly after her arrival from the Panama Canal Zone, where this former Italian ship had been interned and then taken over by the U.S.
US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, Photo No. Unknown a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
Mike Green | |
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175k | USS Hermitage (AP-54) getting underway in September 1942, at William Cramp & Sons, Shipbuilders, Philadelphia. PA. after completing
her conversion for naval service.
U.S. Navy photo |
Nicholas Tiberio | |
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90k | USS Hermitage (AP-54) underway, 15 September 1942, near the William Cramp & Sons, Shipbuilders, Philadelphia. PA. after completing conversion.
US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, Photo No. 19-N-35035A a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
Mike Green | |
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29k | USS Hermitage (AP-54) underway, date and location unknown. | Hyperwar US Navy in WWII | |
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62k | USS Hermitage (AP-54) underway, January 1943, location unknown. US Navy photo. |
Robert Hurst | |
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743k | Midships view looking forward of USS Hermitage (AP-54) at Mare Island Navy Yard, 25 March 1943. US Navy photo File name: AP54 2027-3-43 from the collections of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. |
Darryl Baker | |
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712k | Midships view looking aft of USS Hermitage (AP-54) at Mare Island Navy Yard, 25 March 1943. US Navy photo File name: AP54 2028-3-43 from the collections of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. |
Darryl Baker | |
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471k | USS Hermitage (AP-54) departing Mare Island Navy Yard, 26 March 1943 US Navy photo File names: AP54 2060-3-43 AP54 2061-3-43 and AP54 2062-3-43 from the collections of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum and US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, Photo No. 19-N-44213. |
Darryl Baker - Mare Island Navy Yard photos Mike Green - US National Archives photo. |
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134k | USS Hermitage (AP-54) screw under repair at Navy Yard Mare Island inside machine ship (Shop 31), 22 March 1944.
Hermitage was at Mare Island for emergency docking (appears she chewed-up some bottom with her screw) in dock #2 from 17 March until 19 March 1944.
Possibly the screw was removed and repaired by Mare Island and then ship and screw were reunited in a Hunters Point dry dock. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 1845-44 |
Darryl Baker | |
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276k | Series of photographs of USS Hermitage (AP-54) returning from a Magic Carpet cruise between Guam and San Francisco, mid-1946. Passengers included a SeaBee Battalion. | David Upton | |
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128k | USS Hermitage (AP-54) entering Pearl Harbor, 25 July 1946, carrying military personnel and dependents near the end of her Navy career. USS Hermitage and her sister USS Monticello (AP-61) both returned to service in the Italian merchant marine after the war. US National Archives, RG-80-G, Photo No. 80-G-384480 |
Mike Green | |
| USAT Hermitage |
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105k | USAT Hermitage moored pierside at Yokohama, Japan, circa January 1946.
FLICKR submitted by Tom Brandt |
John Spivey | |
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154k | USAT Hermitage in San Francisco Bay, circa late 1946 returning from a Magic Carpet voyage. | Darryl Baker | |
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303k | USAT Hermitage in dry dock No. 1 at Bethlehem Steel Co. Shipyard, San Francisco, CA., 26 June 1947. Note that her funnels are painted in the Italian Tricolor. US Navy photo from the collections of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. |
Darryl Baker | |
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408k | USAT Hermitage passing under the Carquinez Bridge as she is moved up the Sacramento River in June 1947 by US Army tugs. US Navy photo from the collections of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. |
Darryl Baker | |
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616k | USAT Hermitage passing the C&H Sugar Plant on her starboard side as she continues up the Sacramento River in June 1947. Army Tug LT-815 is on her port stern. US Navy photo from the collections of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. |
Darryl Baker | |
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116k | The Italia Line Societa Di Navigazione passenger liner SS Conte Biancamano ex-USS Hermitage (AP-54) underway in the 1950s after being reconverted and renovated for Italian civilian service. The bow of the elderly ship was restyled to give her a more modern appearance. Photo courtesy Shipscribe.com |
Mike Green | |
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147k | SS Conte Biancamano moored pierside in the 1950s. | Tommy Trampp | |
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37k | SS Conte Biancamano underway in the 1950s, location unknown. | Robert Hurst | |
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104k | SS Conte Biancamano at Naples, Italy, in 1960, prior to leaving on her final voyage on the Barcelona - Lisbon - Halifax - New York route.
Photo courtesy Ricce. |
Robert Hurst | |
| Commanding Officers | ||
| 01 | CAPT. Patterson, Donald Flanner | 14 August 1942 - 27 October 1942 |
| 02 | CAPT. Douglas, Alexander Dean | 27 October 1942 - 19 December 1942 |
| 03 | CDR. Kelsey, John Donald :RADM | 19 December 1942 - 23 December 1942 |
| 06 | CAPT. Mills, George Henry, USN (USNA 1918) :COMO | 12 July 1945 - 9 April 1946 |
| 07 | CAPT. Minckler, Campbell Harris, USN | 9 April 1946 - 20 August 1946 |
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