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USNS Private Leonard C. Brostrom
Summary
USNS Private Leonard C. Brostrom (T-AK–255) was a cargo ship for the United States Navy that was converted into a heavy lift cargo ship in the early 1950s. She was built in 1943 for the United States Maritime Commission as SS Marine Eagle, a Type C4-S-B1 tank carrier, by Sun Shipbuilding during World War II. In 1948, she was transferred to the United States Army as USAT Private Leonard C. Brostrom after Leonard C. Brostrom, a recipient of the Medal of Honor. In 1950, the ship was transferred to the Military Sea Transport Service of the U.S. Navy as a United States Naval Ship staffed by a civilian crew. After ending her naval service, she entered the National Defense Reserve Fleet in October 1980 and was sold for scrapping in June 1982.
Marine Eagle (MC hull 735) was laid down by the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Chester, Pennsylvania under a United States Maritime Commission contract on 5 December 1942 and launched 10 May 1943 sponsored by Mrs. R. M. Stevenson. The ship was delivered to the War Shipping Administration on 18 September 1943 for operation by its agent the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company allocated to Army requirements.
Marine Eagle, the only C4 completed as originally intended, as a tank carrier, operated between New York and European ports until July 1945. During those 18 months she completed nine eastbound Atlantic crossings to the United Kingdom and, after the Normandy invasion, French and Belgian ports. Departing Antwerp on 10 July 1945, she sailed to Panama, instead of New York, then headed out across the Pacific. For the next nine months she carried cargo to the Philippines, then, in March 1946, returned to the west coast. In May, she steamed to Portland, Oregon, for inactivation overhaul, after which she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) at Olympia, Washington, on 29 October.
The ship was reactivated on 27 March 1948 with title transferred to the Army Transportation Service which renamed the ship Private Leonard C.
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