Glacier III AR-183

The third Glacier ( AK-183) was launched 22 April 1944 under a Maritime Commission contract by Walter Butler Shipbuilding. Inc., Superior, Wis.; sponsored by Miss Agnes Kennedy; acquired 29 March 1945 and commissioned 14 April 1945, Lt. C L Hitchcock, USNR, in command.

Following shakedown off Galveston, Tex., Glacier loaded lumber and metal drums at New Orleans and sailed 18 May 1945 for Pearl Harbor, where she put in 12 June to off-load her cargo. Underway 29 June with building supplies Lor Kwajalein, she returned via Eniwetok to San Francisco 5 August. Subsequently, a 5-month voyage out of San Francisco brought general cargo to Pearl Harbor. Tarawa, Majuro, Eniwetok, Guam, and Saipan before Glacier moored at Norfolk 1 February 1946, her missions accomplished. Decommissioned there 19 February 1946, she was returned to the Maritime Commission 3 days later and stricken from the Navy List 12 March 1946.

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