USS Admiral C . F . Hughes ( AP - 124 ) USS " Admiral C . F . Hughes " ( AP - 124 ) was a named in honor of Charles Frederick Hughes , an admiral in the United States Navy who served as Chief of Naval Operations from 1927 to 1930 . " Admiral C . F . Hughes " was laid down on 29 November 1943 by the Bethlehem - Alameda Shipyard Inc . , in Alameda , California , under contract with the United States Maritime Commission . She was launched on 27 August 1944 under the sponsorship of Mrs . Louise Nimitz , the wife of Captain Otto Nimitz and the sister - in - law of Admiral Chester W . Nimitz . On 31 January 1945 she was delivered to the United States Navy and commissioned with Captain John Trebes , USCG , in command . Service history . World War II . Following brief sea trials , along the West Coast of the United States , " Admiral C . F . Hughes " embarked naval officers and Marines at San Diego for transportation to Hawaii . She departed San Diego on 13 March and arrived in Pearl Harbor on 18 March . There , she took on another group of passengers bound for the United States and then got underway on 23 March . The transport arrived in San Francisco on 28 March , disembarked her passengers , and then set sail for San Diego on 9 April . " Admiral C . F . Hughes " reached her destination the following day and began taking on more travelers . On the 14th , the transport left San Diego and set a westward course . The ship entered Pearl Harbor on the 19th , and some passengers left her while others came on board . Three days later , she put to sea on her way to the Mariana Islands . " Admiral C . F . Hughes " put in at Guam on 30 April , and all her passengers disembarked . After taking another group on board , including 221 Japanese prisoners of war , she stood out of Apra Harbor on 3 May . The transport made a two - day stop at Pearl Harbor from 10 to 12 May to disembark the prisoners and then continued her voyage back to the West Coast . She moored at San Francisco on 17 May . On 26 May 1945 the transport sailed for Europe to embarked troops from the European Theater of Operations for redeployment to the Pacific . The transport retraced her route through the Panama Canal and reached Manila on 20 July . " Admiral C . F . Hughes " embarked troops at Biak in the Schouten Islands , and Hollandia , New Guinea , before leaving the latter port on 4 August to return to the United States . She delivered the returning servicemen at San Francisco on 17 August . 1945 – 1967 . The ship put to sea on 31 August with replacements for western Pacific garrisons . Steaming via Ulithi , she arrived at Tacloban , Leyte on 17 September . " Admiral C . F . Hughes " visited Manila again before heading back to North America on the 24th . She paused at Victoria , Canada on 9 October to repatriate former prisoners of war from various Commonwealth Nations , and arrived at Seattle , Washington later that day . The transport made one more round - trip voyage to Yokohama before being decommissioned on 3 May 1946 and struck from the Navy list in June . US Army Transportation Service . After being decommissioned from the Navy , " Admiral C . F . Hughes " was returned to the War Shipping Administration which , in turn , transferred her to the United States Army . The Army renamed the ship USAT " General Edwin D . Patrick " after Edwin D . Patrick , a general who was killed in action while commanding the 6th Infantry Division in the Philippines in 1945 . Under the Army , she served in the Army Transportation Service from 30 August 1946 until 1 March 1950 when the Navy reacquired her . Military Sea Transportation Service . Retaining her Army name , she was assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service ( MSTS ) and was manned by a civil service crew . Operating out of San Francisco , USNS " General Edwin D . Patrick " ( T - AP - 124 ) spent almost two decades transporting troops , military dependents , and cargo to American bases throughout the western Pacific , and supported American forces in the Korean and Vietnam War s . Reserve Fleet . Early in 1967 , the transport was placed in a ready reserve status . On 30 September 1968 , the ship was laid up at the Maritime Administration ' s National Defense Reserve Fleet facility at Suisun Bay , Calif . On 31 August 1969 , title to the ship was transferred to the Maritime Administration and was , again , struck from the Naval Register 9 October 1969 . After being sold to ESCO Marine on 18 March 2010 , the " General Edwin D . Patrick " , ex - " Admiral C . F . Hughes " , departed the San Francisco Bay under tow to the breakers on 3 May 2010 . Her scrapping was declared complete on 25 January 2011 .