USS Shoshone, a 6,318-ton (light displacement) Tolland class attack cargo ship, was built in 1944 at Wilmington, North Carolina, as a Maritime Commission C2-S-AJ3 type freighter. Placed in temporary commission at the end of August 1944 for transit to the Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina, she was then converted for Navy use and entered regular commissioned status in late September. Following shakedown and repairs, Shoshone went to the Pacific in November 1944 and arrived at Saipan in February 1945. Later in that month she participated in landings at Iwo Jima. During the Okinawa invasion, in early April, she stood off the landing area but did not land her embarked troops and equipment.
For the remaining months of World War II, Shoshone transported cargo in the western Pacific. From September into November 1945, following the end of hostilities, she carried occupation troops from the Philippines to Japan. The ship was then employed taking veterans home from the former war zone and carrying supplies between the West Coast and the central Pacific. That work ended in May 1946, when she passed through the Panama Canal en route to Norfolk, Virginia. Deactivated there, USS Shoshone was decommissioned in late June and transferred to the War Shipping Administration. She was sold to private owners in 1947 and spent more than two decades in commercial service, initially as the S.S. Alameda. During the 1960s she had several name changes, becoming Hawaiian Trader, Short Hills, Colorado and U.S. Mate before being scrapped in Taiwan in 1971.
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Page made 7 October 2004
New images added 19 December 2007