USS Wyandot ( AKA - 92 ) USS " Wyandot " ( AKA - 92 ) was an named after Wyandot County , Ohio . She served as a commissioned ship for 20 years and 1 month . " Wyandot " ( AKA - 92 ) was laid down on 6 May 1944 under a Maritime Commission contract ( MC hull 1192 ) at Oakland , California , by the Moore Dry Dock Co . ; launched on 28 June 1944 , acquired by the Navy and simultaneously commissioned on 30 September 1944 , Comdr . E . G . Howard in command . Wartime service . Following her shakedown , " Wyandot " departed San Francisco on 25 November 1944 , bound for the Hawaiian Islands . She made port at Pearl Harbor on 2 December and , after loading cargo earmarked for the Marshalls and Marianas , headed for Eniwetok and Guam . After delivering her cargo to those western Pacific bases , the attack cargo ship returned to the Hawaiian Islands . " Wyandot " departed Pearl Harbor on 26 January 1945 and proceeded thence via Eniwetok to Tacloban where she joined the forces massing for the assault on Okinawa . Assigned to a support role with the amphibious forces , " Wyandot " — partially unloaded — was returning from a night retirement alert about 0400 on 29 March when a Japanese horizontal bomber , probably on a night heckler mission , came in off " Wyandot ' s " starboard quarter and dropped a pair of bombs , one of which hit close aboard the ship ' s starboard quarter , sprinkling her stern with what appeared to be picric acid . The second bomb plunged into the water near the attack cargo ship ' s starboard side and scored an underwater hit , making two large cracks in her hull . The two forward holds and the forward magazine flooded quickly , and " Wyandot " listed slightly to starboard . Putting the remainder of her landing craft and boats in the water , the vessel painfully made her way to an advanced repair base , down by the bow and steaming slowly , but still afloat . Within a short time , the ship ' s force , aided by the salvage experts of the repair unit , had made the necessary temporary repairs ; " Wyandot " consequently returned to her place off the beaches of Okinawa and continued discharging ammunition , vehicles , gasoline , provisions , and special equipment earmarked for the American 10th Army on Okinawa . " Wyandot " , her mission at Okinawa completed , sailed for the west coast of the United States , via Pearl Harbor , for permanent repairs and reached the Naval Dry Docks at Terminal Island , San Pedro , California , on 6 June . After brief periods at San Diego , and later San Francisco , " Wyandot " headed for Pearl Harbor once more — but too late to participate in any further combat operations . She arrived at Pearl Harbor on 28 August . " Wyandot " subsequently visited the Far East that autumn , departing Pearl Harbor on 7 October and visiting , in succession , Okinawa ; Tientsin , China ; Guam ; Eniwetok ; and Kwajalein before returning to Pearl Harbor on 27 November . The next day , the cargo ship got underway for the Atlantic ; steamed via the Panama Canal ; and arrived at Norfolk , Virginia , on 19 December . Post - war service . " Wyandot " operated out of Norfolk for the next two years . Early in 1947 , she departed the Hampton Roads area and took part in the 1947 Atlantic Fleet exercises — maneuvers that took the ship as far as Trinidad in the British West Indies . Departing Trinidad on 8 March , the attack cargo ship took part in further exercises before she made a transatlantic passage to Casablanca , French Morocco . Staying at Casablanca from 24 March to 30 March , " Wyandot " returned via New Orleans to Norfolk on 30 April . Again operating off the eastern seaboard early that summer , " Wyandot " subsequently headed for her first deployment in Arctic waters , departing Boston on 16 July 1947 for Thule , Greenland , and Devon and Cornwallis islands . Returning to Boston on 25 September , " Wyandot " spent the next year operating along the eastern seaboard and gulf coast of the United States , as well as making two cruises to the Caribbean and one to Panama . On 16 July 1948 , " Wyandot " departed Boston , visiting the Arctic again as part of the Navy ' s annual cold - weather exercises in those climes . She revisited the bases she had called upon the previous year and returned to Boston on 18 September , en route to Norfolk . Over the next two years , " Wyandot " operated out of Norfolk and made her first Mediterranean deployment , visiting ports in Italy and French Morocco ; the island of Crete ; Great Britain ; Cuba ; Puerto Rico ; the Virgin Islands ; Haiti ; Newfoundland ; Bermuda ; Nova Scotia ; the Panama Canal Zone ; and Curaçao , Netherlands West Indies . Early in 1951 , " Wyandot " was selected to participate in Operation " Bluejay " — transporting construction materials to the northern part of Greenland — and was busy in that mission from May to September of that year . She returned to that area in 1952 as part of Operation " SuNAC " ( Supply Northern Atlantic Construction ) . The following year , " Wyandot " conducted logistical support missions in the Caribbean and later participated in the joint United States and Canadian resupply operations with Arctic weather stations . " Wyandot " again deployed to the Mediterranean and Caribbean areas between 1953 and 1955 , winning the coveted Battle Efficiency Award for 1955 . In the spring of 1955 , " Wyandot " joined Task Force 43 for " Operation Deep Freeze I " in the Antarctic . After a brief yard availability , the ship loaded supplies and equipment at Davisville , Rhode Island , and shifted to Norfolk , from whence she departed on 14 November . Sailing via the Panama Canal and Lyttelton , New Zealand , " Wyandot " arrived at McMurdo Sound , Antarctica , on 27 December . While in those cold southern latitudes , she served as the flagship for Rear Admiral Richard E . Byrd , officer - in - charge of the Antarctic programs . She was then assigned to " Operation Deep Freeze II " in 1956 . " Wyandot " rendezvoused with near the Panama Canal Zone before both continued on for Antarctica , arriving on 15 December at the Weddell Sea pack ice and then breaking through the Antarctic Circle on 20 December en route to Cape Adams . In 1957 " Staten Island " led " Wyandot " from Cape Adams to Gould Bay where Ellsworth Station was then assembled . After establishing the base at " Little America " , " Wyandot " returned home and operated with the Atlantic Fleet into the late 1950s . Recommissioned in Transportation Service . " Wyandot " was decommissioned on 10 July 1959 and struck from the Navy List . On 1 July 1960 , however , the ship was reinstated on the list because of the increased east - west tensions over the crisis situation in Berlin . Recommissioned in November 1961 , " Wyandot " was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service ( MSTS ) in March 1963 and reclassified as T - AKA - 92 . Later reclassified as T - AK - 283 , " Wyandot " served with MSTS , Atlantic , through the 1960s and was shifted to MSTS ' successor organization , the Military Sealift Command ( MSC ) by October 1973 , and to MSC , Pacific , by 1 July 1974 . Decommissioning and sale . On 31 October 1975 , " Wyandot " was placed in the United States Maritime Administration Reserve Fleet . She was sold for scrap on 5 November 1987 to Nissho Iwai Corp . of Japan and scrapped in Taiwan . Awards . " Wyandot " ( AKA - 92 ) was awarded one battle star for her World War II service .