USS General M . M . Patrick ( AP - 150 ) USS " General M . M . Patrick " ( AP - 150 ) was a for the U . S . Navy in World War II . She was named in honor of U . S . Army general Mason Mathews Patrick . She was transferred to the U . S . Army as USAT " General M . M . Patrick " in 1946 . On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service ( MSTS ) as USNS " General M . M . Patrick " ( T - AP - 150 ) . She was later sold for commercial operation and rebuilt as a container ship . Operational history . " General M . M . Patrick " ( AP - 150 ) was launched 21 June 1944 under Maritime Commission contract ( MC # 702 ) by Kaiser Co . , Inc . , Yard 3 , Richmond , California ; sponsored by Mrs . William E . Lynd ; acquired by the Navy 4 September 1944 ; and commissioned at San Francisco the same day , Captain George W . Stott in command . After shakedown , " General M . M . Patrick " departed San Francisco 14 October and transported nearly 3 , 000 troops to Pearl Harbor and Guam before returning to San Francisco 18 January 1945 with military passengers . Between 19 February and 6 March she carried more troops from Seattle to Hawaii and returned sailors to San Francisco . With a full load of troops embarked , she then sailed 16 March for the Southwest Pacific , where she arrived San Pedro Bay , Philippines , 18 April . After shuttling troops from Allied bases along the northern coast of New Guinea to Luzon , she departed Manila 16 May and brought home returning veterans , arriving San Francisco 12 June . Once again departing San Francisco 28 June , she transported 3 , 000 troops and passengers to Fremantle , Australia ; steamed to Calcutta , India , to embark passengers ; then sailed via the Suez Canal to New York , where she arrived 3 September . On the 22d " General M . M . Patrick " departed on another Magic Carpet voyage to Calcutta and back to New York , arriving 16 November . Departing New York 9 days later , she embarked still more troops at Calcutta , Karachi , and Tuticorin , India ; steamed via Ceylon and Singapore for the West Coast ; and arrived San Pedro 28 January 1946 . She decommissioned 8 March and was returned to WSA 11 March for use as an Army transport under the Army Transportation Service . " General M . M . Patrick " was reacquired by the Navy 1 March 1950 and assigned to duty as an overseas transport under MSTS . Manned by a civilian crew , during the Korean War she operated between Seattle and the Far East and carried tens of thousands of combat troops to Korea . After the armistice , she continued steaming from Seattle to Yokohama , Japan , and back , returning veterans of the Korean fighting to the United States and deploying troops to the Far East . On 29 November 1952 USNS " General M . M . Patrick " steamed from Yokohama to Seattle with some 118 paintings , sculptures , and examples of applied arts destined for the 1953 exhibition " Japanese Painting and Sculpture " . This exhibition was a pivotal exhibition of Japanese art in America and was seen at the National Gallery of Art , the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston , the Art Institute of Chicago , and the Seattle Art Museum . Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson — a member of the Honorary Committee for the exhibition — arranged for the use of the " General M . M . Patrick " for the exhibit , the only international art exhibition ever to receive such support by the Defense Department . The transport was returned to the Maritime Administration 17 October 1958 and entered the National Defense Reserve Fleet ( NDRF ) at Olympia , Washington . The ship was sold for commercial use in 1967 or 1968 , and converted by Todd Shipyard , Galveston to a container ship . She may have been scrapped in 1975 , or , be awaiting disposal from the NDRF at Suisun Bay . 15 April 2010 ship headed to San Francisco for preparation to go through the Panama Canal to Texas for Scrappage . She left San Francisco Bay in early May , destined for the Texas scrapyard . " General M . M . Patrick " received two battle star s for Korean War service .