Photo #: NH 104020
USS General J. C. Breckinridge (T-AP-176)
Alongside a pier at Fort Mason, the U.S. Army's port of embarkation
at San Francisco, California, circa the early 1950s. A sister
transport is on her left, and one of three Military Sea Transportation
Service (MSTS)-operated storeships of the Bald Eagle (T-AF-50)
class is on her right. This was the normal eastern terminus of
Breckinridge's trans-Pacific voyages.
These piers still exist as part of the Fort Mason Center, a National
Historic Landmark and cultural center.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph, from the Military
Sealift Command collection.
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