USS Boreas ( AF - 8 ) USS " Boreas " ( AF - 8 ) was an acquired by the United States Navy after World War I . She served with distinction during World War II , supplying food and other supplies to ships and installations in the combat zones of the Pacific Theater . Early career . " Boreas " was built for the United States Shipping Board as SS " Yaquina " in 1919 at Oakland , California , by the Moore Shipbuilding Company ; renamed " Boreas " on 29 October 1921 ; acquired by the Navy on 6 December 1921 and laid up in reserve at the Philadelphia Navy Yard ; commissioned in ordinary on 6 August 1940 ; towed to the Todd - Robbins Dry Dock and Repair Co . in Brooklyn , New York , for reactivation ; and placed in full commission on 24 March 1941 , Commander George M . O ' Rear in command . Following shakedown in the Chesapeake Bay in May , the store ship filled her holds with construction equipment and material , and a load of frozen turkeys . She set course for the Pacific , and stopped at Guantánamo Bay , Cuba , before transiting the Panama Canal . She topped off her tanks and cargo holds at San Diego and San Francisco , California , and then got underway for Pearl Harbor on 6 June . For the next few months , she operated a shuttle service between these ports on the U . S . West Coast and Hawaii . World War II . At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 , " Boreas " was in San Francisco . One of the first provision ships to arrive in Hawaii after the attack , she made 10 round - trips between San Francisco and Pearl Harbor in 1942 hauling goods and material to rebuild and resupply the strategic naval base there . On 26 December 1942 , " Boreas " departed San Francisco , bound for Nouméa , New Caledonia , and Espiritu Santo , to begin supplying advanced bases . Returning to Pearl Harbor or San Francisco to refill her holds with needed supplies , " Boreas " provisioned many of the major islands and bases in the Pacific including Samoa ; Funafuti ; Kwajalein ; Eniwetok ; Tulagi ; Guadalcanal ; Guam ; Saipan ; Iwo Jima ; Okinawa ; Manus ; Ulithi ; Efate ; Tarawa ; Makin ; Christmas Island ; and Auckland , New Zealand . " Boreas " generally steamed alone , only occasionally rating a small escort , but the store ship never suffered damage and rarely even saw an enemy . Late in 1944 , she salvaged cargo from , a concrete storage barge that had grounded on a coral reef off Saipan during a severe storm . Post - war career . After the Japanese agreed to surrender on 15 August 1945 , " Boreas " carried supplies to Okinawa to support occupation forces there . Later in the fall of 1945 , she received orders to move on to Japan and provisioned Wakayama , Nagoya , Sasebo , and Kure from 20 October to 18 November when orders came sending her home . " Boreas " arrived at San Diego on 23 December . The store ship steamed via the Panama Canal for the Norfolk Navy Yard , where she arrived on 19 January 1946 . " Boreas " was decommissioned on 15 February , and her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 March . Returned to the War Shipping Administration in July 1946 , she was sold on 28 November 1947 to the Patapsco Steel Scrap Co . of Bethlehem , Pennsylvania , and scrapped .