USS General W . F . Hase ( AP - 146 ) USS " General W . F . Hase " ( AP - 146 ) was a for the U . S . Navy in World War II . She was named in honor of U . S . Army general William Frederick Hase . She was transferred to the U . S . Army as USAT " General W . F . Hase " in 1946 . On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service ( MSTS ) as USNS " General W . F . Hase " ( T - AP - 146 ) . She was later sold for commercial operation in 1967 , before being scrapped in 1985 . Operational history . " General W . F . Hase " ( AP - 146 ) was launched under a Maritime Commission contract ( MC # 662 ) 15 December 1943 by Kaiser Co . , Inc . , Yard 3 , Richmond , California ; sponsored by Mrs . John E . Wood , Jr . ; acquired by the Navy and simultaneously placed in a ferry commission 22 April 1944 during transfer for conversion to a transport by Kaiser Co . , Inc . , Vancouver , Washington ; and placed in full commission at Portland , Oregon , 6 June 1944 , Comdr . W . W . Keller in command . After shakedown out of San Pedro , " General W . F . Hase " departed San Francisco 15 July 1944 with 3 , 000 troops and $ 29 million in military currency . After touching at Pearl Harbor , she debarked the fighting men at Eniwetok , returning to San Francisco 26 August with 2 , 100 soldiers . Between 20 September and 1 November the transport steamed out of Seattle , carrying more than 2 , 000 troops to Pearl Harbor and 2 , 800 thence to Manus , Admiralty Islands , before returning to San Francisco with 2 , 500 veterans of the New Guinea campaign on board . Continuing to support the westward drive of naval forces in the Western Pacific , between 23 November and 20 April 1945 , she made two round trips out of San Francisco , shuttling troops to New Guinea and the Philippines and bringing home veterans from New Caledonia and Manus . During the next 12 months " General W . F . Hase " made six round - trip voyages , including two circumnavigations of the earth , while deploying troops to and from the United States . Departing San Pedro 9 May , she carried 2 , 600 troops to Melbourne , Australia , where she arrived 27 May . After steaming to Fremantle , Australia , she reached Calcutta , India , 14 June and embarked 2 , 500 homebound soldiers . She then sailed for the United States via Ceylon and the Suez Canal and arrived Norfolk 20 July . She departed Norfolk 5 August for the Mediterranean ; and as part of the " Magic Carpet " fleet , she embarked more than 3 , 000 troops at Marseilles , France , before returning to New York 27 August . Operating out of New York between 1 September and 27 December , she sailed twice to Calcutta and back with more than 6 , 000 troops . On 11 January 1946 she again departed New York for Calcutta ; and , after embarking 2 , 900 troops 8 February , she steamed via Manila to the West Coast , arriving San Francisco 8 March . Between 1 and 15 April she carried 1 , 000 occupation troops to Yokohama , Japan ; and on her final " Magic Carpet " voyage she returned 2 , 800 veterans to Seattle 28 April . " General W . F . Hase " steamed to San Francisco 3 to 4 May decommissioned there 6 June , and , simultaneously , was returned to WSA for use as a transport by the Army Transportation Service . She was reacquired by the Navy 1 March 1950 and assigned to duty with MSTS . Manned by a civilian crew , she operated out of San Francisco , carrying more than 75 , 000 troops and their combat cargo to the Far East in support of the Korean War . Between 1950 and 1953 she made 19 round - trip voyages to Japan and Korea , and she returned to San Francisco from her final Far East deployment 29 August 1953 . Towed to San Diego in June 1954 , she was placed out of service in reserve in July and remained inactive until returned to the Maritime Administration 8 January 1960 . She was berthed in the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay , California until 1969 , at which time she was sold private , and converted to carry containers by Seatrain Lines . She sailed for many years as SS " Transidaho " . The ship was scrapped in Taiwan in 1985 . " General W . F . Hase " received eight battle star s for Korean war service .