USS General A . W . Greely ( AP - 141 ) USS " General A . W . Greely ( AP - 141 ) was a named for U . S . Army general Adolphus Greely . She was transferred to the U . S . Army as USAT " General A . W . Greeley in 1946 . On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service ( MSTS ) as USNS " General A . W . Greely " ( T - AP - 141 ) . She was later sold and converted to a container ship and operated under several names before being scrapped in 1986 . Operational history . The " Greely " was a C4 type transport , laid down under Maritime Commission contract 18 July 1944 by Kaiser Co . , Inc . , Yard 3 , Richmond , California ; launched 5 November 1944 ; sponsored by Mrs . Clarke Wayland ; acquired by the navy 22 March 1945 ; and commissioned the same day , Commander George W . Stedman Jr . in command . After shakedown , " General A . W . Greely " embarked 2 , 923 troops and civilians and departed San Pedro , California , 16 April for Australia . She reached Melbourne , 4 May , then sailed the next day for Fremantle and India , arriving Calcutta , 20 May . After embarking homebound troops , she departed 28 May ; steamed via Ceylon and Suez ; and arrived Newport News , Virginia , 22 June . From 28 June to 7 July she sailed to Le Havre , France , where she embarked 3 , 000 troops before returning to New York , NY , 18 July . Between 28 July and 6 December she completed two round - trip voyages from New York to Calcutta , transporting occupation troops , mail , and cargo ; and returning home - bound veterans to the United States . Departing New York 14 December , she reached Karachi , India , 4 January 1946 and embarked additional returning veterans . She sailed 6 January for the West Coast ; and , steaming via Ceylon , Singapore , and the Philippines , she arrived Seattle , Washington , 2 February . She decommissioned at San Francisco , California , 29 March and was transferred to WSA the same day for use as a transport in the Army Transportation Service , as USAT " General A . W . Greely " . Part of this transportation service involved the immigration of displaced persons from Europe to the United States . A particular trip arrived at a Hudson River pier in New York ( ca . # 40s ) on 4 February 1950 after about a one week journey form Bremerhafen , Germany . Another such trip left Bremerhafen on 18 February . Reacquired by the navy 1 March 1950 , the ship was assigned to Military Sea Transportation Service under a civilian crew and her designation was changed to USNS " General A . W . Greely " ( T - AP - 141 ) . She departed Seattle 5 August and carried troops to the Far East in support of the effort to repel Communist expansion in Korea . Operating out of Seattle , during the next nine months she made four round - trip voyages to Japan , Korea , and Okinawa . Returning to Seattle 3 May 1951 , she then sailed 24 May for duty in the Atlantic . Operating out of New York , between 10 October 1951 and 22 February 1953 " General A . W . Greely " completed numerous transatlantic runs to Bremerhaven , Germany , and La Pallice , France . The highlight of these runs occurred while en route from Bremerhaven in January 1952 , she rescued survivors from the stricken merchantman SS " Flying Enterprise " . Placed in reduced operational status from 17 April until 5 June 1953 , she departed Norfolk 16 June for Thule , Greenland . Arriving 3 July , she served until 30 September as barracks ship during Operation " Blue Jay , " the construction of Thule Air Force Base . She returned to New York 9 October ; steamed to Bremerhaven and back between 10 November and 4 December ; and was again placed in reduced operational status from 9 December until 19 July 1954 . " General A . W . Greely " departed New York 27 July , bound for the Pacific . Arriving San Francisco 11 August , she sailed for the Far East 7 September and operated in Korean and Japanese waters before returning to San Francisco via Adak , Alaska , 10 October . She steamed to Portland , Oregon , 27 October ; entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Diego in March 1955 ; and was transferred to the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Olympia , Washington , 29 August 1959 . After being laid up in the reserve fleets for well over a decade , " General A . W . Greely " was sold for commercial use . Converted to a container ship in 1968 , she subsequently was renamed several times , becoming SS " Hawaii Bear " in 1969 , SS " Austral Glade " in 1975 , SS " Pacific Enterprise " in 1979 and SS " Caribe Enterprise " in 1982 . She was sold for scrapping in 1986 .