Photo #: NH 105924
USAT Admiral W. S. Benson
The former USS Admiral W. S. Benson (AP-120) in Army service
circa 1946-1947, after an initial austere conversion for peacetime
duty.
The Army subsequently renamed her General Daniel I. Sultan,
gave her a much more elaborate conversion, and in 1950 handed
her back to the Navy for service in the new Military Sea Transportation
Service. Note that she has received lifeboats and davits in place
of her wartime liferafts but retains her empty gun positions
and the other main external features of her wartime configuration.
Donation of Captain Stephen S. Roberts, USNR (Retired), 2008.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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