USS Scania, a 4087-ton (displacement) Artemis class attack cargo ship, was built at Providence, Rhode Island, as a Maritime Commission S-4-SE2-BE1 type steamship. Commissioned in mid-April 1945, she went to the Pacific Coast in June and arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in July. After a voyage to the Gilbert and Marshall Islands she returned to Hawaii and was operating on local service there when World War II ended. Scania made a second long voyage to the south and central Pacific in September and October 1945, then made two more trips, one from Wake Island and the second from the Philippines, transporting war veterans home. This work ended at year's end, and Scania spent nearly all of 1946 carrying cargo to, and around, the western Pacific and the Asian mainland. During the first five months of 1947 she was employed in the Aleutian Islands. She commenced inactivation at San Francisco, California, that June and was placed out of commission early in September. USS Scania was laid up in the Maritime Commission's reserve fleet at Suisun Bay, California, for nearly eighteen years before being sold for scrapping in July 1965.
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