USS Admiral Hugh Rodman ( AP - 126 ) USS Admiral Hugh Rodman " ( AP - 126 ) was an : Laid down , 24 April 1944 , as a Maritime Commission type ( P2 - SE2 - R1 ) hull , under Maritime Commission contract , ( MC hull 684 ) , at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation , Alameda , California ; Launched , 25 February 1945 ; Commissioned USS " Admiral Hugh Rodman " ( AP - 126 ) , 7 July 1945 , Capt . Lewis E . Coley in command ; Decommissioned , 14 May 1946 , at New York ; Transferred to the U . S . Army Transportation Service in May 1946 ; Commissioned USAT " General Maurice Rose , 1 August 1946 ; Reacquired by the U . S . Navy and assigned to the Military Sea Transport Service ( MSTS ) ; Placed in service as USNS " General Maurice Rose " ( T - AP - 126 ) , 1 March 1950 . World War II Pacific Theatre operations . Assigned to the United States Pacific Fleet , the transport departed San Francisco , on 21 July 1945 for a shakedown cruise which took her to San Diego and Los Angeles . She returned to her home port on 16 August – two days after hostilities with Japan ended — and embarked fresh troops to replace war - weary veterans in the Far East . She transited the Golden Gate on 21 August and proceeded via Ulithi to the Philippines . Following stops at San Pedro Bay , Leyte , and Batangas and Manila , Luzon , she headed home and reached San Francisco , early in October . Then , following a second round - trip voyage to the Philippines , she again got underway from San Francisco , in December , and set course for Nagoya , Japan . This shuttle run ended at Los Angeles , on 3 January 1946 . Another voyage to Japan – this time to Yokohama – took her back to Seattle , Washington . Early in March , she sailed from that port with occupation troops and delivered them to Okinawa . Transferred to the US Army . From that island in the Ryukyu Islands , the ship sailed , via the Panama Canal , for the east coast of the United States . She reached New York on 14 May , was decommissioned on that day , and was transferred to the War Department later that month . The ship entered the Bethlehem New York yard at 56th Street on 3 June to receive the repairs and modifications she would require upon assuming a slightly different role . She got underway again on 1 August and served the U . S . Army Transport Service as " General Maurice Rose " until she and her sister U . S . Army transports were transferred to the U . S . Navy on 1 March 1950 to serve in the recently established Military Sea Transportation Service . Transferred to the US Navy . She was given the classification T - AP - 126 at that time . Manned by a civilian crew , " General Maurice Rose " operated out of New York in the $ 3 and the Mediterranean during the next 15 years . Transporting Soldiers and Refugees . Steaming primarily between New York and Bremerhaven , Germany , she completed more than 150 round - trip voyages while carrying military dependents and European refugees and rotating combat - ready troops . In addition , the ship deployed to the Mediterranean 17 times to support U . S . 6th Fleet operations . Following the gallant , but abortive , Hungarian revolution in October 1956 , she completed three runs to Bremerhaven , Germany , and back between 12 January and 27 March 1957 transporting Hungarian refugees to the United States . On three occasions between 1 April and 5 October , " General Maurice Rose " was dispatched to the eastern Mediterranean to support units of the U . S . 6th Fleet responding to political crises in Jordan . The General Maurice Rose was still transporting troops between New York and Bremerhaven , Germany in July 1958 . Vietnam Crisis Operations . In 1965 , however , America ' s increased involvement in the war in Vietnam beckoned the transport toward a new theater of operations . After completing nine voyages to Bremerhaven , Germany , and back between 16 January and 4 August 1965 , General Maurice Rose departed New York on 14 August for transport duty to southeast Asia . She sailed via Long Beach , California , and Pearl Harbor to Qui Nhon , South Vietnam , where she arrived on 14 September and began debarking troops and supplies . After departing Vietnam on the 19th , she steamed via Okinawa and the U . S . West Coast and reached New York on 18 October . During the first eight months of 1966 , she made eight round - trip runs to Europe and back . On 8 September , she again departed New York for troop lift duty to South Vietnam . She operated in the western $ 3 supporting the forces of freedom in southeast Asia through the end of 1966 . She returned to New York late in January 1967 for an overhaul and was placed in ready reserve status . As such she was laid up at the Cavin Point Army Depot in New York harbor . Deactivation . " General Maurice Rose " was placed in ready reserve status and laid up in the Cavin Point Army Depot in New York harbor in 1967 . She was transferred to the permanent custody of the Maritime Administration ( MARAD ) , 30 June 1970 and shifted to the National Defense Reserve Fleet , James River , Fort Eustis , Virginia . She was struck from the Naval Register , 20 August 1990 and sold by the Maritime Administration in June 1997 for scrapping at Brownsville , Texas .