SS Sea Scamp
USAT Sea Scamp was a Type C3 ship S-A2 troop transport that saw service in World War II.
She was launched on 30 April 1943 by Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, under a Maritime Commission contract with owner Lykes Brothers Steamship Company.
Voyages
- Sailed from Oakland, CA 31 March 1944 for Finschafen, New Guinea arriving 30 April 1944
- Sailed from Hilo, Hawaii 14 July 1944 for Saipan, Marianas arriving 11 August 1944
- Sailed from San Francisco 17 November 1944 for Hollandia, New Guinea arriving 5 December 1944
- Sailed from New Guinea 25 December 1944 for San Francisco, CA arriving 17 January 1945
- Sailed from San Francisco to The Admiralty Islands February 1945
- Sailed from ? on ? for New [York City, New York] arriving 5 September 1945
- Sailed from New York City, New York 4 January 1946 arriving 17 January 1946 in Le Havre
- Sailed from Le Havre, France on 28 January 1946 for New York City, New York arriving 9 February 1946
- Sailed from England on ? February 1946 for New York City, New York arriving 4 March 1946
Magnitude 9.0 generated a tsunami wave in Honolulu harbor which sent a cement barge from its moorings to collide against the freighter. It was sold to U.S. Maritime Commission in 1964 and renamed Pecos in 1966. It was scrapped in 1971.