Talk:USS Wayne

Confusing Afoundria ships
Two ships, built at the same yard, completed months apart, with very similar post war ownership histories are named Afoundria. They are so confused even the MARAD database has the separate status cards and histories in two pages with one Official Number in the headers. The previous version of the Wayne page had a remark about that ship "reverting" to its original Afoundria — it did not.


 * Wayne was the first Afoundria, yard #7, MC#476, O/N, 251508, was delivered May 1943. After reverting to civilian service that ship, renamed Beauregard was involved in complicated sales (probably among subsidiaries) of Waterman and then Litton. It became a "van ship". It became a Litton and then Reynolds leasing corporations ship.


 * Afoundria, the second ship, yard #14, MC#482, O/N, 244018, was delivered November 1943. That ship was operated until the end of the war as a War Shipping Administration Navy allocated troop transport in the Pacific by Waterman as the WSA agent and reverting to Waterman at the end of the war. It became a container ship and followed a similar Litton to Reynonds pattern until sold for scrapping in November 1979.

The WSA troop transport Afoundria is briefly covered in Charles', Troopships of World War II on page 151. The two ships operated at the same locations at times, though perhaps not at the same time. In any case, throughout the war, operationally, one was Wayne and one was Afoundria. After the war Wayne was Beauregard and Afoundria was always Afoundria. Palmeira (talk) 11:49, 1 October 2021 (UTC)