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USAHS ''Blanche F. Sigman'' was a United States Army hospital ship during World War II. The ship was completed in April 1943 as Liberty ship SS ''Stanford White''. When selected for conversion to a hospital ship, she was originally assigned the name USAHS ''Poppy'', but never operated under that name. After being decommissioned as a hospital ship, she became U.S. Army transport USAT ''Blanche F. Sigman''. SS ''Stanford White'', named in honor of American architect Stanford White, was built by California Shipbuilding Corporation of Los Angeles for the in early 1943. Laid down in March 1943 and launched the following month, the ship was assigned to United States Lines, Inc. for merchant operation by the War Shipping Administration (WSA). ''Stanford White'' made her way from California to New York and from that port made one transatlantic round trip to Liverpool. In November 1943, the WSA allocated the ship to the U.S. Army, which converted her to a hospital ship. Though initially assigned the name ''Poppy'', she was instead named in honor of First Lieutenant Blanche F. Sigman, a U.S. Army nurse killed in action in Italy. The hospital ship was initially based in Charleston, South Carolina, and made multiple voyages to ports in England, the Mediterranean, and France. After her homeport was changed to New York in December 1945, she made several more runs to Europe as a hospital ship, then converted to USAT ''Blanche F. Sigman'' in April 1946. As a transport, the ship made numerous trips bringing home nurses and military personnel prior to entering the National Defense Reserve Fleet in 1948. The ship was declared surplus by the Army in 1949, and sold for scrapping in 1974. == Liberty ship == ''Stanford White'' (MC Hull No. 738) was laid down on 9 March 1943 on ship way 7 at California Shipbuilding Corp. (Calship) of Los Angeles as a standard Liberty ship. The ship was launched on Monday, 5 April 1943 (the same day as another Calship-built Liberty, ), and delivered 17 April 1943, taking 39 days from start to delivery.〔 The ship was initially to be launched on Saturday, 3 April, but had suffered minor damage from a fire the day before.〔 Though it is not known where ''Stanford White'' spent the first five months of her merchant career, she spent the last two in the Atlantic. She sailed from Galveston, Texas on 12 September 1943 and arrived in Key West on 16 September. The ship departed the same day for New York and arrived there on 22 September. On 28 September the ship, carrying a general cargo, joined a convoy headed to Liverpool, where it arrived on 13 October. Five days later, the ''Stanford White'' set out for New York, arriving back there on 4 November. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USAHS Blanche F. Sigman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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