USS General Stuart Heintzelman ( AP - 159 ) USS " General Stuart Heintzelman " ( AP - 159 ) was a for the U . S . Navy in World War II . She was named in honor of U . S . Army general Stuart Heintzelman . She was transferred to the U . S . Army as USAT " General Stuart Heintzelman " in 1946 . On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service ( MSTS ) as USNS " General Stuart Heintzelman " ( T - AP - 159 ) . She was later sold for commercial operation before being scrapped in 1984 . Operational history . " General Stuart Heintzelman " ( AP - 159 ) was launched under a Maritime Commission contract ( MC # 716 ) 21 April 1945 by Kaiser Co . , Inc . , Yard 3 , Richmond , California ; sponsored by Mrs . C . H . Wright ; acquired by the Navy and simultaneously commissioned 12 September 1945 , Comdr . M . S . Clark in command . After shakedown out of San Diego , " General Stuart Heintzelman " departed San Pedro , California , 9 October 1945 and carried more than 3 , 000 occupation troops to Yokohama . Returning to Seattle 6 November with 3 , 100 veteran passengers , she made a similar voyage from Seattle to Japan and back again between 13 November and 9 December . On 28 December she sailed from Seattle on another " Magic - Carpet " run to Manila and Yokohama and returned to San Francisco 3 March 1946 with a full load of homeward - bound troops . Following a round - trip voyage from San Francisco to Manila and return , " General Stuart Heintzelman " steamed from the West Coast via Panama to New York , where she arrived 27 May . She decommissioned there 12 June and was returned to WSA for use as an Army transport by the Army Transport Service . On 30 October 1947 USAT " General Stuart Heintzelman " left Bremerhaven with 843 displaced persons from Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania and arrived in Fremantle , Western Australia on 28 November 1947 . This voyage was the first of almost 150 voyages by some 40 ships bringing refugees of World War II to Australia . " General Stuart Heintzelman " made three more such trips herself , arriving in Melbourne with 822 refugees on 20 April 1948 , in Sydney with 1301 on 24 November 1949 , and in Melbourne with 1302 on 3 March 1950 . " General Stuart Heintzelman " was reacquired by the Navy 1 March 1950 and assigned to overseas transport duty under MSTS . Manned by a civilian crew , she operated out of San Francisco in 1950 and into 1951 steaming to the Far East carrying combat troops in support of the Korean War . In late 1951 she steamed from San Francisco to New York for transport duty in the Atlantic and the Caribbean . For more than 2 years she made passenger runs typically from New York to Bremerhaven , Germany ; La Pallice , France ; Southampton , England ; Argentia , Newfoundland ; Reykjavík , Iceland ; and San Juan , Puerto Rico . One such run in November 1951 hauled elements of the 28th Infantry Division from Hampton Roads , Virginia to Bremerhaven as an effort to bolster NATO forces in Germany . On 24 June 1954 " General Stuart Heintzelman " was deactivated and assigned to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet , Orange , Texas . She was returned to the Maritime Administration in June 1960 . She was berthed with the National Defense Reserve Fleet , Beaumont , Texas , before being sold for commercial use in 1968 . She was scrapped in Taiwan in 1984 .