General Steamship Company was founded in 1920 in Houston, Texas, United States, as a private company, and has gone by Gensteam since 1996. General Steamship Company has a fleet of cargo ships that operate worldwide. Its Gensteam Operations Desk website 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 and California during and after 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.Miscellaneous Reports of Fact-Finding Boards, Volume 1, By United States. Department of Labor, page 14, 1946Gensteam: The General Steamship Story, by Steve Simpson

Divisions: General Steamship Agencies is Gensteam;s United States operation. Wheelhouse Shipping Agency is Gensteam's Canada operation, formed from the merger of Canadian Empire Shipping and Compass Marine in 2017. Alaska Maritime Agencies is Gensteam Alaska's operation, formed in 1960 as a joint venture between Kerr Steamship Company and General Steamship.

Offices gensteam.com/ Offices Houston, Texas San Francisco, California – San Francisco Bay ports Los Angeles (Port of Los Angeles, Port of Long Beach, Port Hueneme, Port of San Diego) New Orleans, Louisiana Baton Rouge, Louisiana Corpus Christi, Texas and other Texas ports Mobile, Alabama Stockton, California (Port of Stockton, Port of Sacramento) Columbia River ports Seattle Anchorage, Alaska Wheelhouse Shipping Agency Ltd, Western CanadaWheelhouse Shipping Agency Ltd

Gensteams is a ship agency service, ships dry dockings, military, offshore, and handles distressed vessels.

History General Steamship Company was founded by Captain John Barneson, Harry S. Scott, Captain Harry Birkholm, Clarence Belknap, and others. Harry H. Scott became the president till 1953. In the 1920s, they opened routes to the US West Coast, Far East, South Pacific Ocean, Europe, and Central America and South America. The company survived the Great Depression. During World War II, General Steamship Company operated ships for the U.S. government, British Ministry of War Transport, the Norwegian Shipping and Trade Mission, and Canadian military for the U.S. The company operated 51 T2-type tanker vessels and a total of 175 ships.General Steamship Company History

Los Angeles Tanker Operators, Inc. Los Angeles Tanker Operators, Inc. was founded in Los Angeles, California, on July 8, 1943, by Harry H. Birkholm, Morgan Adams, A. P. Scott, Eugene Overton, W. Bruce Bryant, Leander K. Vermille, and Edward D. Lyman. Birkholm was president. W. Bruce Bryant became the district manager for General Steamship Company in 1942.The Liberty Ships of World War II, By Greg H. Williams Los Angeles Tanker Operators, Inc. operated a fleet of T2 tankers, type T2-SE-A2.

Los Angeles Tanker Operators' fleet of ships was used to help the World War II effort. During World War II, its Merchant navy ships served the United States Shipping Board. During World War, II Los Angeles Tanker Operators was active with charter shipping with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration. Los Angeles Tanker Operators operated Liberty ship tankers for the merchant navy. The ship was run by its Los Angeles Tanker Operators crew and the US Navy supplied United States Navy Armed Guards to man the deck guns and radio.World War II U.S. Navy Armed Guard and World War II U.S. Merchant Marine, 2007–2014 Project Liberty Ship, Project Liberty Ship, P.O. Box 25846 Highlandtown Station, Baltimore, MD

Some tanker ships operated for World War II: Charlotte P. Gilman, Henry C. Wallace Alan Seeger John Goode

General Steamship Company ships

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 Lawton B. Evans SS Niagara Victory SS Waltham Victory SS Wooster Victory SS William G. Fargo SS Nampa Victory SS Phillips Victory SS Edward E. Hale SS Edward J. O'Brien SS John Evans SS John W. Searles SS Middlebury Victory SS Telfair Stockton USS Majaba (AG-43) SS Morgan Robertson SS Illawarra SS Thorl SD Thorsgaard SS Thorsisle SS Enid Victory SS Illawarra

American Pacific Steamship Company American Pacific Steamship Company was founded in July 1943 as Los Angeles Tanker Operators, Inc. to support the World War II effort. On April 22, 1946, Los Angeles Tanker Operators, Inc. changed its name to American Pacific Steamship Company, as the line began to operate dry cargo ships, also.Miscellaneous Reports of Fact-Finding Boards, Volume 1, By United States. Department of Labor, 1947

American Pacific Steamship Company Ships owned or chartered ships: USNT Shawnee Trail SS Mission San Miguel SS Abraham Rosenberg SS Alan Seeger SS Alexander V. Fraser SS Admiral Arthur P. Fairfield SS Idaho SS Chadd's Ford T2 USS Cohocton T2 SS Coquille T2 SS Lookout Mountain T2 USS Mascoma (AO-83) SS Mello Franco SS Milan R. Stefanik SS John Goode SS Samuel L. Cobb SS King S. Woolsey SS William Glackens SS Henry Villard SS Howard T. Ricketts SS William W. Seaton SS Chung Tung SS Donald S. Wright

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 SS Inglewood Hills SS Alan Seeger SS John Goode SS Henry C. Wallace

See also

World War II United States Merchant Navy

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