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USNS ''Upshur'' (T-AP-198), was a Barrett Class〔NavSource Naval History: ''NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive: USNS Barrett (T-AP-196)'', http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22196.htm, accessed 6 Jan 2014.〕 transport named in honor of Major General William P. Upshur, USMC.〔Naval Historical Center: ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'', Upshur, http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/u1/upshur-i.htm, n.d., accessed 6 Jan 2014.〕〔174th Assault Helicopter Company: ''USNS Upshur'', http://www.174ahc.org/upshur01.htm, accessed 6 Jan 2014.〕 The hull of the USNS ''Upshur'' was laid down on September 1, 1949 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey as the SS ''President Hayes''. Designed in 1947 as a passenger-cargo ship for the American President Lines' post-World War II replacement program,〔US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration: ''National Register Eligibility Assessment, Vessel: TS State of Maine, ex-USNS Upshur (T-AP-198)'', http://www.marad.dot.gov/documents/State_of_Maine_NHPA_History.pdf Date: 29 September 2009.〕〔NavSource Online: ''Service Ship Photo Archive, USNS Upshur (T-AP-198)'', http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22198.htm, accessed 6 Jan 2014.〕 before she was completed in her civilian configuration, she was requisitioned by the U.S. Navy at the outbreak of the Korean War and converted for troop and dependent transport.〔174th Assault Helicopter Company: ''USNS Upshur'', http://www.174ahc.org/upshur01.htm, accessed 6 Jan 2014.〕〔US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration: NATIONAL REGISTER ELIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT, VESSEL: TS State of Maine, ex-USNS Upshur (T-AP-198), http://www.marad.dot.gov/documents/State_of_Maine_NHPA_History.pdf Date: 29 September 2009.〕 Reassigned to the US Navy and renamed USNS ''Upshur'', she served the Military Sea Transportation Service from 1952 to 1973.〔NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive, USNS Upshur (T-AP-198), http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22198.htm, accessed 6 Jan 2014.〕 Over her years of service she performed many routine missions, carrying military members and their families safely across the seas in an era when air travel was uncommon, as well as special missions, such as the emergency evacuation of military families from Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in 1962.〔Robert G. Brown, LT, CHC, USN: ''Guantanamo Bay Evacuation'', http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/world/2012/USNS-Upshur-Evacuation-Account.pdf, n.d., accessed 6 Jan 2014.〕 In 1973 USNS ''Upshur'' was decommissioned and transferred to the United States Maritime Administration (MARAD), and provided to the Maine Maritime Academy for use as a merchant marine training ship.〔US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration: NATIONAL REGISTER ELIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT, VESSEL: TS State of Maine, ex-USNS Upshur (T-AP-198), http://www.marad.dot.gov/documents/State_of_Maine_NHPA_History.pdf Date: 29 September 2009.〕〔NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive, USNS Upshur (T-AP-198), http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22198.htm, accessed 6 Jan 2014.〕 Renamed TS ''State of Maine'', she served from 1973 to 1995 in service of the academy, with temporary assignments to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.〔US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration: NATIONAL REGISTER ELIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT, VESSEL: TS State of Maine, ex-USNS Upshur (T-AP-198), http://www.marad.dot.gov/documents/State_of_Maine_NHPA_History.pdf Date: 29 September 2009.〕〔NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive, USNS Upshur (T-AP-198), http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22198.htm, accessed 6 Jan 2014.〕 In 1995 USNS ''Upshur'' was transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard and relocated to Mobile, Alabama as a platform for testing maritime firefighting technology by the U.S. Coast Guard Fire & Safety Test Detachment in Mobile.〔NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive, USNS Upshur (T-AP-198), http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22198.htm, accessed 6 Jan 2014.〕 In 2005, Hurricane Katrina broke the former USNS ''Upshur'' free of her moorings and settled her 500 feet across the Mobile River on the bank of a coal terminal.〔US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration: NATIONAL REGISTER ELIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT, VESSEL: TS State of Maine, ex-USNS Upshur (T-AP-198), http://www.marad.dot.gov/documents/State_of_Maine_NHPA_History.pdf Date: 29 September 2009.〕 In 2008 she suffered further damage when Hurricane Ike hit the area, and the vessel bottomed out and sat at a ten‐degree list.〔US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration: NATIONAL REGISTER ELIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT, VESSEL: TS State of Maine, ex-USNS Upshur (T-AP-198), http://www.marad.dot.gov/documents/State_of_Maine_NHPA_History.pdf Date: 29 September 2009.〕 According to Google Earth, the vessel was removed from Little Sand Island between May 2010 and July 2011. USNS ''Upshur'' is associated with noted naval architect George G. Sharp and participated in several notable events in U.S. history, but, based on her current condition, MARAD has determined that she is not eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.〔US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration: NATIONAL REGISTER ELIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT, VESSEL: TS State of Maine, ex-USNS Upshur (T-AP-198), http://www.marad.dot.gov/documents/State_of_Maine_NHPA_History.pdf Date: 29 September 2009.〕 ==Sources== 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「USNS Upshur (T-AP-198)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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