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Photo # NH 103568:  USNS General Simon B. Buckner in drydock at Bremerhaven, Germany.

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USNS General Simon B. Buckner (T-AP-123), 1945-1997 -- Part II


This page features additional views related to USNS General Simon B. Buckner (T-AP-123).


For more images concerning this ship, see:

  • USNS General Simon B. Buckner (T-AP-123), 1945-1997. Previously USS Admiral E. W. Eberle (AP-123) and U.S. Army Transport General Simon B. Buckner.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 103568

    USNS General Simon B. Buckner
    (T-AP-123)

    In drydock at the North German Lloyd shipyard at Bremerhaven after suffering ice damage to her propeller structure in the Weser River the previous winter. Buckner served on the New York to Bremerhaven route between 1955 and 1966.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Military Sealift Command collection at the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 89KB; 590 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 104181

    MSTS transports in Ready Reserve


    Four MSTS Atlantic Fleet transports in Ready Reserve at the Cavin Point Army Depot, New York, circa early 1967. The ship in the right foreground is USNS General Simon B. Buckner (T-AP-123), with USNS General William O. Darby (T-AP-127) on the far side of the pier. Ahead of them respectively are USNS General Alexander M. Patch (T-AP-122) and USNS General Maurice Rose (T-AP-126).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph,
    from the Military Sealift Command collection.

    Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 105100-A

    USNS General Simon B. Buckner
    (T-AP-123)

    Reverse side of a postcard published during the 1950s by the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) for sale in its ships' stores.
    See Photo # NH 105100 for a reproduction of the front side of this postcard, featuring a photograph of General Simon B. Buckner underway.
    Text and graphics on the reverse of this postcard are printed in black ink.

    Donation of Charles R. Haberlein Jr., 2007.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image size: 54KB; 740 x 500 pixels

     


    One of the ships seen in the following view may be USNS General Simon B. Buckner (T-AP-123):

    Photo #: NH 104180

    USNS General William O. Darby
    (T-AP-127)

    Pierside at Bremerhaven, Germany, in 1963. Underway on the left is USNS Geiger (T-AP-197), and in the distance in the center is one of Darby's sisters, most likely either General Alexander M. Patch (T-AP-122) or General Simon B. Buckner (T-AP-123).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph,
    from the Military Sealift Command collection.

    Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     


    For more images concerning this ship, see:

  • USNS General Simon B. Buckner (T-AP-123), 1945-1997. Previously USS Admiral E. W. Eberle (AP-123) and U.S. Army Transport General Simon B. Buckner.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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