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From 1949 to 1952, the ship, U.S. Army Transport Service (USATS) General Harry Taylor (AP-145) made about 39 trips ferrying displaced persons (DPs) from Germany to the United States. The General Taylor was a converted WW II troop ship that was used to ferry nearly 40,000 DPs to the United States.
The ship was later renamed the General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. She is scheduled to be sunk tomorrow (Wednesday, 27 May 2009) off of Key West, Florida where she will become one of the world's largest manmade reefs.
See Wikipedia entry ship entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_General_Harry_Taylor_(AP-145)
Ship sinking as a reef
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iy4pXyqcS5Pg7dtwlA40_zr3pPaAD98DADTO0
http://www.keysnet.com/news/story/105128.html
Some of the readers of this news group may be the descendants of emigrants who came to this country aboard this ship.
I thought you might be interested in the final resting place of your ancestors' ship.
Tom S.
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