USNS Sgt . Andrew Miller ( T - AK - 242 ) USNS " Sgt . Andrew Miller " ( T - AK - 242 ) was a " Boulder Victory " - class cargo ship built at the end of World War II and served the war and its demilitarization as a commercial cargo vessel . From 1946 to 1950 she served the U . S . Army as a transport named USAT " Sgt . Andrew Miller " . In 1950 she was acquired by the U . S . Navy and assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service ( MSTS ) . In 1981 she ended her career and was placed into reserve . Victory ship built in California . " Sgt . Andrew Miller " was laid down under a U . S . Maritime Commission contract on 22 February 1945 as " Radcliffe Victory " ( MCV hull 743 ) by the Permanente Metals Corporation , Richmond , California ; launched on 4 April 1945 ; sponsored by Mrs . Charles H . Owens ; and delivered to the U . S . Maritime Commission ' s War Shipping Administration ( WSA ) on 28 April 1945 for operation by the American - West African Line Inc . U . S . Army service . After the end of World War II , " Radcliffe Victory " was returned to WSA and was further transferred to the U . S . War Department for operation by the Army Transportation Corps on 26 July 1946 . Renamed " Sgt . Andrew Miller " on 31 October 1947 , the cargo ship remained with the Army Transportation Corps until 1 March 1950 . Service with the MSTS . She was transferred to the Navy for operation by the newly established Military Sea Transportation Service ( MSTS ) , becoming USNS " Sgt . Andrew Miller " ( T - AK - 242 ) . Homeported at San Francisco , California , " Sgt . Andrew Miller " made a round - trip run to Hawaii and back in April ; and , in May , she sailed for Yokosuka , Japan . From there , she continued on to Naha , Okinawa , whence she returned to the U . S . West Coast . Korean War service . Arriving after the outbreak of war in Korea , she loaded cargo for units being shipped to Japan and Korea ; and , on 18 July , she sailed west . On 3 August , she stopped at Sasebo , Japan ; and , on the 4th , she arrived off Pusan to commence offloading . Two weeks later , she started back across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii , where she took on more cargo ; and , on 15 September , she again sailed west . During November , she delivered cargo at Inchon and Chinnampo ; then put into Yokohama . In early December , she got underway for Wonsan but was diverted back to Yokohama , where she joined Task Group 90 . 2 , the Hungnam evacuation force . On 13 December , she sailed for that North Korean port ; where , from the 18th to the 20th , she took on men and equipment as units fought back to the harbor after the entry of Communist Chinese forces into the conflict . The ship offloaded at Pusan ; then returned to Sasebo , whence she made another run to Korea before sailing for Pearl Harbor and San Francisco . Arriving at the latter port in early February 1951 , she made runs to bases in the Central Pacific Ocean and in the Aleutians into the summer ; and , in August , she resumed runs to Japan and Korea . During April and May 1952 , she again carried cargo to islands in the Central Pacific ; then , in June , returned to logistics support of United Nations forces in Korea . In September , her operations in the Far East were extended to include Okinawa ; and , early in 1953 , her calls at Central Pacific ports were made en route to the Far East . During the spring of that year , she resumed non - stop runs to Japan and Korea . Vietnam operations . After the truce agreement in July 1953 , " Sgt . Andrew Miller " continued runs to Japan and Korea and to the islands of the central and northern Pacific . In the summer of 1954 , she was called on to assist in Operation Passage to Freedom which moved Vietnamese from Haiphong to Saigon following the division of the former French colony . Following one run , she resumed her transpacific operations and expanded her range to include ports in Taiwan ; in Thailand , and in the Philippine Islands . During the late 1950s and into the 1960s , she occasionally interrupted her Pacific operations for brief periods of service on transatlantic runs ; but , into the fall of 1974 , she remains in the Pacific in the Military Sealift Command ( MSC ) fleet . During the Fall of Saigon she participated in the MSC evacuation operation conducted concurrently with Operation Frequent Wind . Decommissioning . The ship was decommissioned at an unknown date and struck from the Navy List on 16 January 1981 . She was returned to the U . S . Maritime Administration on 18 February 1983 . Her subsequent fate is not known . Honors and awards . Eligible on - board personnel were authorized the following :