Name SS Deltargentino Acquired 8 November 1940 Construction started 21 December 1939 | Laid down 21 December 1939 Name USAT J. W. McAndrew Launched 13 July 1940 | |
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Operator Mississippi Shipping Company Fate Requisitioned by the United States Army, 28 June 1941 Builder Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard | ||
USAT J. W. McAndrew was a Type C3-P&C troop ship for the United States Army during World War II.
The ship was built by the Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard of Baltimore in 1940 as SS Deltargentino for the United States Maritime Commission on behalf of the Mississippi Shipping Company in 1940 for operation by its Delta Line. The ship was delivered to Mississippi Shipping in November 1940.
Deltargentino was among the ships designated for Army among the twenty-eight merchant vessels (twenty-one for the Navy and seven to the Army) requisitioned by the Maritime Commission's Division of Emergency Shipping announced on 4 June 1941. The ship would have been transferred to the Navy and named USS J. W. McAndrew (AP-47) in 1943, but this was cancelled. While serving as a U.S. Army transport ship in 1945, she collided with French aircraft carrier Béarn resulting in the loss of several lives. Afterward, the ship was repaired, and eventually sold in 1948 to the Farrell Lines for commercial use under the name SS African Enterprise.
The ship was laid up as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet in October 1960, and was finally sold by the Maritime Administration (MARAD) on 9 April 1969. The ship was broken up in Baltimore in February 1972.