General Steamship Company

General Steamship Company was founded in 1920 in Houston, Texas, as a Private Company, and now goes by Gensteam since 1996. ^[1]General Steamship Company has a fleet of cargo ships that operate worldwide. Gensteam has a Gensteam Operations Desk website that tracks all shipping logistics. Gensteam headquarters is now in San Francisco, California. General Steamship Company was part owner of American Pacific Steamship Company in New York state and Los Angeles during and post World War II. American Pacific Steamship Company was founded in 1942 in New York City, and was previously called Los Angeles Tanker Operators Inc. which operated T2 tanker ships. During World War II the General Steamship Company and American Pacific Steamship Company were active with charter shipping with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration.^{[2][3] [4][5]}

• General Steamship Agencies is Gensteam United States operation.^[6][7]
• Wheelhouse Shipping Agency is Gensteam Canada operation. Wheelhouse Shipping Agency was formed from the merger of Canadian Empire Shipping and Compass Marine in 2017.^[8]
• Alaska Maritime Agencies is Gensteam Alaska operation. Formed in 1960 as a joint venture between Kerr Steamship Company and General Steamship.^[9]

General Steamship Company ships[]

World War II Victory ship

World War II Liberty ship

General Steamship Company ships owned or charted ships:

• SS Hobart Baker
• Tiger Hill
• USS Procyon (AF-61)
• USS Gwinnett (AVS-5)
• USNS Twin Falls (T-AGM-11)
• SS Enid Victory
• SS Bates Victory
• SS Niagara Victory
• SS Waltham Victory^[10]
• SS Wooster Victory^[10]
• SS William G. Fargo^[11]
• SS Nampa Victory^[12]
• SS Phillips Victory^[13]
• SS Edward E. Hale^[14]
• SS Edward J. O'Brien^[14]
• SS John Evans^[15]
• SS John W. Searles^[15]
• SS Middlebury Victory
• SS Telfair Stockton
• USS Majaba (AG-43)
• SS Morgan Robertson^[16]
• SS Illawarra
• SS Thorl
• SD Thorsgaard
• SS Thorsisle
• SS Enid Victory
• SS Illawarra

American Pacific Steamship Company ships[]

USNS Cohocton (T-AO-101), a T2 tanker

American Pacific Steamship Company Ships owned or charted ships:

• USNT Shawnee Trail
• SS Mission San Miguel
• SS Abraham Rosenberg ^[17]
• SS Alan Seeger^[17]
• SS Alexander V. Fraser ^[17]
• SS Admiral Arthur P. Fairfield
• SS Idaho
• SS Chadd's Ford T2^[18]
• USS Cohocton T2
• SS Coquille T2^[18]
• SS Lookout Mountain T2^[19]
• USS Mascoma (AO-83)
• SS Mello Franco ^[16]
• SS Milan R. Stefanik ^[16]
• SS John Goode^[15]
• SS Samuel L. Cobb^[20]
• SS King S. Woolsey^[21]
• SS William Glackens ^[11]
• SS Henry Villard^[22]
• SS Howard T. Ricketts^[22]
• SS William W. Seaton^[23]
• SS Chung Tung^[24]
• SS Donald S. Wright^[25]

Los Angeles Tanker Operators Inc ships[]

Ships of the Los Angeles Tanker Operators Inc.:

• USNS Mission Loreto
• USNS Mission Los Angeles
• USNS Mission Santa Clara
• USNS Mission San Rafael
• USNS Mission San Antonio
• SS Hilda Marjanne
• SS Joshua Tree
• SS Verendrye
• SS Charlotte P. Gilman^[24]
• SS Inglewood Hills
• SS Alan Seeger ^[17]
• SS John Goode^[15]
• SS Henry C. Wallace^[22]

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