USS General W . G . Haan ( AP - 158 ) USS " General W . G . Haan " ( AP - 158 ) was a for the U . S . Navy in World War II . She was named in honor of U . S . Army general William George Haan . She was transferred to the U . S . Army as USAT " General W . G . Haan " in 1946 . On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service ( MSTS ) as USNS " General W . G . Haan " ( T - AP - 158 ) . She was later sold for commercial operation under several names before being scrapped in 1987 . Operational history . " General W . G . Haan " ( AP - 158 ) was launched 20 March 1945 under Maritime Commission contract ( MC # 715 ) by Kaiser Co . , Inc . , Yard 3 , Richmond , California ; sponsored by Miss Helen Coxhead ; acquired by the Navy and simultaneously commissioned 2 August 1945 , Comdr . J . V . Rylander in command . " General W . G . Haan " conducted shakedown training out of San Diego until after the surrender of Japan . Departing 4 September 1945 for the southwest Pacific , the transport touched at Eniwetok , Leyte , and Manila before returning to Seattle with homecoming veterans 22 October . Subsequently , the ship made two voyages to Japan and the Philippines , bringing occupation troops and embarking returning servicemen . She returned to San Francisco after her last passage , and departed 30 April 1946 for the East Coast via the Panama Canal . Arriving Baltimore 25 May , " General W . G . Haan " decommissioned there 7 June 1946 and was returned to WSA for further transfer to the Army Transport Service . On 2 October 1949 , USAT " General W . G . Haan " departed Naples with 1303 displaced person s from Eastern Europe for resettlement in Australia arriving 15 November 1949 at Melbourne . On December 18 , 1949 , she left Bremerhaven arriving December 28 in New York City with mostly Polish passengers . She completed another voyage to Melbourne on 20 February 1950 with 1301 more refugees . Reacquired by the Navy 1 March 1950 , " General W . G . Haan " was assigned to MSTS under a civilian crew . Until 1953 she operated under the International Refugee Organization and carried displaced East Europeans from northern European ports to the United States . In 1952 " General W . G . Haan " also made two support voyages to the American bases at Thule , Greenland , and Goose Bay , Labrador . Following this demanding duty , the ship made several voyages to Europe in support of American units . She continued this steaming schedule until March 1955 when she was placed in Reduced Operational Status at New York . In December 1956 " General W . G . Haan " resumed duty as a refugee transport . Steaming from New York to Bremerhaven , Germany , she embarked refugees from the Hungarian Revolution and brought them to New York . On 7 January 1957 she was again placed in Reduced Operational Status . " General W . G . Haan " was subsequently placed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet , Orange , Texas , and was returned to the ' Maritime Administration 22 October 1958 . She entered the National Defense Reserve Fleet at nearby Beaumont , where she remained until sold for commercial use in 1968 to Hudson Waterways Corporation of New York . She was rebuilt as a 13 , 489 gross ton container ship by Maryland Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co . in Baltimore . Renamed " Transoregon " , she began service in December 1969 . In 1975 she was sold to the Puerto Rico Maritime Shipping Authority and renamed " Mayaguez " . She was sold in 1982 to Merchant Terminal Corporation of New York and renamed " Amco Trader " . In 1985 she remained laid up in New York . She was scrapped at Taiwan in 1987 .