Conversion of Passenger and Troop Quarters Performed on the USAT "General C. G. Morton.".

San Francisco: Pacific Ship Repair Inc. [Pier 25], 1949-50. Oblong folio album of twenty-two original photographs. Each 13 x 10 inches and backed on thick paper. Original plastic spiral binding. A very good copy.This album documents the work done by the employees of Pacific Ship Repair to convert the U.S. Navy ship General G. C. Morton to a Military Sea Transportation Service vessel. The album shows workers rehabing all parts of the ship. USS General C. G. Morton (AP-138) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. She was named in honor of U.S. Army general Charles Gould Morton. She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General C. G. Morton in 1946. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS General C. G. Morton. She was activated again for the Korean War and received three battle stars for service in that campaign. She was finally scraped in 1980.