GENERAL O. H. ERNST 

AP  133 

 

BUILT:  1944  BEAM:  71'-6"  DRAFT:  24' 
LENGTH:  522'-10"   CARGO [cu ft]:  32,800   PASS [troop ship]:  3191  
PROPULSION: Turbine   RADIUS [miles]: 15,000 TONS:  13,000
TYPE:   C4 SPEED [knots]:  17 DEPENDENTS / JAPAN:  ?

Named in honor Major General Oswald Herbert Ernst, USMA 1864, eminent military engineer, who served in the Civil War and in the Spanish-American War.

Ship known to have made several trips to Yokohama in 1946.

Ref:  http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22133.htm 

 

 

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