My mom who at 96 is still pretty with it, tells me the trip took 9 days. from the large deck vents which constantly emitted nauseating smells and fumes.". than a few lines without permission. Meals were taken at standing-height Run," L. N. Mermer, The Mast Magazine, July 1948 [7], In 1845, General Taylor was converted into a tugboat, operating out of the Pensacola Navy Yard. was also on hand.". Construction edit Taylor ' s keel was laid down by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine, on May 5, 1983. [2] The single-cylinder, 98hp, 23 rpm engine was of the square crosshead type, with a 25.3 inch bore and 6-foot stroke. together. Can you please advise how I can get a copy of the manifest that you have? In July 1844, General Taylor was used to convey abolitionist Jonathan Walker from Key West to the Pensacola Navy Yard, where he was handed over to local authorities and charged with slave stealing. Do you have a copy of that wonderful book that Gerhard Maroscher wrote ? Army Transport Service and its successor, Military Sea Transportation Service, Some are OK with sharing stories others want to remain anonymous. General Taylor had a length of 105 feet (32m), a beam of 17feet 6inches (5.33m), a draft of 6feet 6inches (1.98m) and a hold depth of 8feet 6inches (2.59m). Especially with the children one senses adventure, surprise, awe and uncertainty. I still always see that image, but knew later it had to be done. By the way, did you purchase my book? "Immigrant Ships, Transcribers Guild, General Haan", "Kaiser Company, Inc., Richmond No. For most refugees their embarkation point was Bremerhaven; others Though only an auxiliary ship, General Taylor appears to have had quite a colorful career. This database contains U.S. Navy muster rolls and associated reports of changes for U.S. Navy enlisted personnel who served on U.S. Navy ships or in other naval activities between 31 January 1938 and 31 December 1949. USNS GENERAL W. A. MANN T-AP-112. Many got sea-sick. In the mid-1840s, General Taylor's crew included two future Engineers-in-Chief of the Navy. I would be happy to communicate more with you in the future. My family and I sailed from Bremerhaven to NY March 31, 1952. Europeans: people who were unable or unwilling to return to their native countries Are you a Key West local? Eventually, the United States, I have met with two of the ten passengers who sailed on the USS General Ballou. Prior to her Navy service, she operated as a transport and supply vessel during the Second Seminole War . in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where they could become farmers or factory workers. I just discovered your story page. Although at 6 years of age I was too young to form strong opinions about the cuisine, I distinctly remember eating the first orange of my life aboard the USAT General R. L. Howze. US troops returning home aboard the USS General Harry Taylor in August 1945 The points system in Band of Brothers is one of the historically accurate aspects of the show. ), and that he has He immigrated to Australia on the General Greely arriving in Newcastle 12 October 1949. In the event, these precautions proved unnecessary as the men on the island eventually dispersed peacefully. O'Dwyer spoke of the people of New York City itself. Gerda Konyen (Wickett). Sold April 10 1987 for scrap. At the end of the war, the American public demanded the rapid demobilization of overseas troops. I think it was in the neighborhood of $50 for a year membership. His living accommodations Do you recall some of the other descriptions of our trip across the angry North Atlantic that I describe in my book? If you see substantial portions of this I have only personally met two of them. I too saw the burial and the wailing of relatives in New York when they found out. To emigrate to the U.S., a Displaced Person needed a sponsor General Harry Taylor to US Navy USNS General Harry Taylor (T-AP-145) General Hugh J. Gaffey to US Navy USNS General Hugh J. Gaffey (T-AP-121) General J. H. McRae to US Navy USNS General J. H. McRae (T-AP-149) General John McE. She promptly returned to Guam with vitally needed troops . They also came to the US on the USNS Ballou from Bremerhaven to New York City in Dec 1950. According On 1 March 1950, she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS General C. C. Ballou (T-AP-157). [1] Benjamin F. Isherwood, later Engineer-in-Chief of the Navy during the American Civil War, served on General Taylor in 184647. Steam was supplied by an iron flue boiler at an average working pressure of 20 psi. anyone without the express written consent of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild LLC. We were from Germany, Rathmannsdorf inititially later near Hannover, Refugees. Launched July 18 1943. Personal Correspondence I was wondering how you were able to locate the manifest for your voyage. Then after two round-trip voyages to India and back to New York with returning soldiers and sailors, the ship sailed 13 January 1946 for a voyage that was to take her around the world visiting Calcutta, Manila, and other ports before mooring at San Francisco 8 March with over 3,000 troops. Though only an auxiliary ship, General Taylor appears to have had quite a colorful career. Oldenbarnevelt 3 NovemberSS Surriento 10 NovemberSS Neptunia 13 NovemberSS Groote Beer 20 NovemberSS Sydney 30 NovemberSS Australia 4 DecemberSS Waterman 10 DecemberSS Castel Felice 24 December, 1956SS Sibajak 10 JanuarySS Toscanelli 19 JanuarySS Roma 21 JanuarySS Surriento 29 JanuarySS JV Oldenbarnevelt 13 FebruarySS Australia 19 FebruarySS Castel Felice 24 FebruarySS Zuiderkruis 3 MarchSS Sydney 16 MarchSS Fairsea 18 MarchSS Oceania 18 MarchSS Sibajak 10 AprilSS Surriento 10 AprilSS Neptunia 16 AprilSS Australia 7 MaySS JV Oldenbarnevelt 8 MaySS Toscanelli 18 MaySS Sydney 25 MaySS Surriento 26 JuneSS Neptunia 1 JulySS Australia 30 JulySS JV Oldenbarnevelt 11 AugustSS Sydney 18 AugustSS Oceania 25 AugustSS Surriento 22 SeptemberSS Australia 14 OctoberSS Sydney 25 OctoberSS Neptunia 8 December, 1957SS Australia 9 JanuarySS Sydney 20 JanuarySS Neptunia 3 MarchSS JV Oldenbarnevelt 17 MarchSS Oceania 27 AprilSS Zuiderkruis 1 JuneSS Waterman 7 SeptemberSS Begona 23 SeptemberSS Australia 25 NovemberSS Oceania 15 December, 1958SS Australia 10 FebruarySS Sydney 30 MarchSS Iberia 5 AprilSS Toscana 10 AprilSS Neptunia 21 JulySS Australia 18 AugustSS Sydney 8 SeptemberSS Neptunia 6 OctoberSS JV Oldenbarnevelt 27 OctoberSS Australia 3 NovemberSS Zuiderkruis 13 NovemberSS Oceania 24 November, 1959SS Australia 6 AprilSS JV Oldenbarnevelt 30 AprilSS Neptunia 25 MaySS Australia 27 JuneSS Roma 10 JulySS JV Oldenbarnevelt 24 JulySS Oceania 11 AugustSS Sydney 24 AugustSS Neptunia 17 SeptemberSS Roma 19 SeptemberSS Australia 28 SeptemberSS Oceania 26 OctoberSS Sydney 1 NovemberSS Neptunia 23 NovemberSS Roma 26 NovemberSS Australia 11 December, 1960SS Sydney 8 JanuarySS Oceania 11 JanuarySS Roma 2 FebruarySS Neptunia 8 FebruarySS Australia 29 FebruarySS Sydney 16 MarchSS Oceania 28 MarchSS Neptunia 27 AprilSS Australia 20 MaySS Sydney 24 MaySS Oceania 13 JuneSS Roma 20 JuneSS Neptunia 11 JulySS Castel Felice 12 JulySS Monte Udala 23 JulySS Sydney 1 AugustSS Australia 3 AugustSS Aurelia 6 AugustSS Oceania 30 AugustSS Roma 10 SeptemberSS Zuiderkruis 12 SeptemberSS Neptunia 26 SeptemberSS Sydney 9 OctoberSS Australia 17 OctoberSS Toscana 17 OctoberSS Waterman 16 NovemberSS Roma 18 NovemberSS Neptunia 12 DecemberSS Sydney 21 December, 1961SS Australia 2 JanuarySS Conte Grande 6 JanuarySS Zuiderkruis 23 JanuarySS Roma 30 JanuarySS Sydney 27 FebruarySS Neptunia 16 MarchSS Australia 20 MarchSS Oceania 17 AprilSS Sydney 14 JuneSS Oceania 3 JulySS Neptunia 31 JulySS Australia 21 AugustSS Roma 24 AugustSS Oceania 18 SeptemberSS Sydney 21 SeptemberSS Neptunia 16 OctoberSS Australia 6 NovemberSS Groote Beer 17 NovemberSS Oceania 4 DecemberSS Sydney 8 December, 1962SS Neptunia 1 JanuarySS Australia 22 JanuarySS Sydney 15 FebruarySS Oceania 20 FebruarySS Zuiderkruis 24 FebruarySS Neptunia 19 MarchSS Roma 19 MarchSS Australia 9 AprilSS Sydney 25 AprilSS Neptunia 5 JuneSS Australia 25 JuneSS Sydney 3 JulySS Oceania 25 JulySS Aurelia 10 AugustSS Neptunia 20 AugustSS Australia 11 SeptemberSS Oceania 8 OctoberSS Roma 16 OctoberSS Flavia 31 OctoberSS Groote Beer 7 NovemberSS Aurelia 11 NovemberSS Australia 26 NovemberSS Oceania 24 DecemberSS Roma 26 December, 1963SS Neptunia 21 JanuarySS Sydney 31 JanuarySS Australia 10 FebruarySS Waterman 13 FebruarySS Roma 6 MarchSS Oceania 10 MarchSS Neptunia 6 AprilSS Sydney 9 AprilSS Galileo Galilei 3 MaySS Roma 13 MaySS Sydney 18 JuneSS Neptunia 20 JuneSS Galileo Galilei 12 JulySS Roma 22 JulySS Aurelia 11 AugustSS Galileo Galilei 20 SeptemberSS Sydney 3 NovemberSS Marconi 5 December, 1964SS Sydney 11 JanuarySS Galileo Galilei 30 JanuarySS Marconi 27 FebruarySS Galileo Galilei 2 AprilSS Marconi 7 MaySS Galileo Galilei 11 JuneSS Marconi 9 JulySS Galileo Galilei 13 AugustSS Marconi 10 SeptemberSS Galileo Galilei 15 OctoberSS Aurelia 23 OctoberSS Galileo Galilei 15 December, 1965SS Marconi 21 JanuarySS Galileo Galilei 19 FebruarySS Marconi 18 March. In the event, these precautions proved unnecessary as the men on the island eventually dispersed peacefully. For I found the manifest on Ancestry.com Since I knew names and dates it was easy. families together. 's to sift All have commented that their histories are much like mine, even if they were from other Eastern European countries. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. I was born in Germany in a DP camp to Polish parents and was carried to Boston on the Gen. C.C. men were given clean-up assignments on deck or in the engine room. Good luck. spend on deck. His story and my story are similar. The paddlewheels were 16 feet in diameter and 4 feet 10 inches wide, with fourteen 1-foot 10-inch width paddles. I dont think it helped. The new boiler had a greater fire surface area (720 vs. 499 square feet) than the original, and a slightly higher operating pressure of 25 psi. Cargo of Hope, It was a short note, just a request Good luck! I was eleven and I had to be with the adults. Following World War II USS General Henry W. Butner was assigned to the Naval Transportation Service (NTS) Absorbed into the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) in October 1949, redesignated USS General Henry W. Butner (T-AP-113) USS General Henry W. Butner performed Occupation duty and China Service for the following periods: USS General C. C. Ballou (AP-157) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. I believe my family was also on this ship from Germany in 1952. I have three original out of 4 family passengers that came over November 3rd 1951. General Taylor's original builder is not known, but her original engine was supplied by the Allaire Iron Works of New York. [11], For the operation, General Taylor was equipped with a single 6-pounder cannon, and her crew issued with small arms. She participated in Operation Earnest Will and Operation Prime Chance. Thanks for contacting me! General Taylor was sold by the Navy in 1852. Most passengers are World War II refugees or displaced persons. On 1 March 1950, she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS General C. C. Ballou (T-AP-157). Information usually available includes name of enlistee, occupation specialty, service number, date serviceman reported on board, date of enlistment, name of ship, station or activity, and date of muster roll. Two days later the busy ship steamed under the Golden Gate bound for Norfolk, closing that port 15 July and getting . If you could point us to useful . [8] William H. Shock, Engineer-in-Chief of the Navy in the 1870s, also served on General Taylor in the late 1840s. "[5] The ship's skipper, Commander Dennis Volpe, was subsequently relieved and reassigned. She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General C. C. Ballou in 1946. Prior to her Navy service, she operated as a transport and supply vessel during the Second Seminole War. Seeing our names on the inbound (to NY) passenger manifest is quite exciting. ISTG NOTICE: These electronic pages are Copyright 1998-2016 and may NOT be The Fourth Registration, often referred to as the "old man's registration", was conducted on 27 April 1942. "Ex-Transport Carries D.P. 11 December 1951 to 26 March 1954, Personnel Diary Alfons, or as we knew him Alc, is listed as passenger 264. Are there any correspondents who were on that voyage? After being burned and rebuilt in 1846, the steamer later played a role in the foiling of a planned 1849 filibuster invasion of Cuba. New York was welcoming these citizens-to-be Assigned to MSTS October 1949. 's," The Mast Magazine, September Also remember that the men and women were separated and I hardly saw my dad, as we were in the womens section of the vessel. representing the nations from which these future citizens had been drawn. Fresh air seemed helpful being sick and I stayed on deck as much as I could. - 2002. His homeland was Romania. R. L. Howze. Joe Kwapisz. This letter brought a rush of memories, since I too came to the United States as a Displaced Person in 1949. Gerda Konyen (Wickett), Michigan. anyone without the express written consent of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild LLC. Required fields are marked *. Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild is independently owned. [2] She completed another voyage to Sydney on 23 March 1950 with 1266 more refugees. In September 1849, General Taylor was despatched to Round Island, Mississippi, to help monitor a party of 500 or more "adventurers" gathered there, whose leaders were rumored to be planning an attack on Cuba. In the mid-1840s, General Taylor's crew included two future Engineers-in-Chief of the Navy. USS Taylor Anchor Log 1942-1955 7 June 1942 to 20 August 1955. They are not official Navy publications, and the Navy does not stock, sell, or republish these books. My grandparents came over on the General W. M. Black in 1949. Most passengers are World War II refugees or displaced persons. I remember the soldiers giving me salted peanuts to combat seasickness. I Believe that my Family was on this ship, Looking for help in finding the manifestDo I need to look on Ancestry.com. The more you know about your departure and arrival dates the easier the search will be. In 1975 the ship was sold to Navieras de Puerto Rico, also known as the Puerto Rico Maritime Shipping Authority and renamed SS Humacao. USAT General Haan. Reacquired by the Navy 1 March 1950, General C. H. Muir began operations under MSTS and was re-designated T-AP-142. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Just the other day another passenger on the ship contacted me, although he sailed to the USA one year before you and I did. 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