USS Maui

Last updated April 01, 2019

USS Maui has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:

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SS Maui (1916), Matson liner launched 1916 briefly commissioned as a troop transport USS Maui (ID-1514) from 1918 to 1919, returned to commercial service and purchased 3 December 1941 by United States Department of War as the WW II Army Transport USAT Maui until laid up for disposal 30 August 1946.
USS Maui (ARG-8), an internal combustion repair ship in commission from 1944 to 1946, originally named USS Leyte and renamed USS Maui in 1945

SS Maui was built as a commercial passenger ship in 1916 for the Matson Navigation Company of San Francisco and served between the United States West Coast and Hawaii until acquired for World War I service by the United States Navy on 6 March 1918. The ship was commissioned USS Maui (ID-1514) serving as a troop transport from 1918 to 1919. The ship was returned to Matson for commercial service September 1919 and continued in commercial service until purchased by the United States Army in December 1941. USAT Maui was laid up by the Army in 1946 and scrapped in 1948.

The United States Department of War, also called the War Department, was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army, also bearing responsibility for naval affairs until the establishment of the Navy Department in 1798, and for most land-based air forces until the creation of the Department of the Air Force on September 18, 1947.

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