SS Marco Polo was a cargo ship built under a US Maritime Commission contract (as MC hull 1356), by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Co., Wilmington, North Carolina.
The ship was renamed Mount Hood on 10 November 1943; launched on 28 November 1943; acquired by the Navy on loan-charter basis on 28 January 1944; converted by the Norfolk Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Norfolk, Virginia, and the Norfolk Navy Yard; and commissioned on 1 July 1944.
USS Mount Hood (AE-11) was the lead ship of her class of ammunition ships for the United States Navy in World War II. She was the first ship named after Mount Hood, a volcano in the Cascade Range in the US state of Oregon. On 10 November 1944, shortly after 18 men had departed for shore leave, the rest of the crew were killed when the ship exploded in Seeadler Harbor at Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
S/O Martha J (Bibleheimer) & Henry Peter Thoerner
Wife was Elsie Grace (Templin) Thoerner (m. 1941)
Service # 8199607
Unit United States Naval Reserve
Rank Coxswain U.S. Navy
Status Missing In Action
THOERNER, Henry B, COX, 8199607, USNR, from Pennsylvania, USS Mount Hood, location Admiralty Islands, missing, date of loss November 10, 1944 .
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Remembered by Buffalo (50696055)
The ship was renamed Mount Hood on 10 November 1943; launched on 28 November 1943; acquired by the Navy on loan-charter basis on 28 January 1944; converted by the Norfolk Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Norfolk, Virginia, and the Norfolk Navy Yard; and commissioned on 1 July 1944.
USS Mount Hood (AE-11) was the lead ship of her class of ammunition ships for the United States Navy in World War II. She was the first ship named after Mount Hood, a volcano in the Cascade Range in the US state of Oregon. On 10 November 1944, shortly after 18 men had departed for shore leave, the rest of the crew were killed when the ship exploded in Seeadler Harbor at Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
S/O Martha J (Bibleheimer) & Henry Peter Thoerner
Wife was Elsie Grace (Templin) Thoerner (m. 1941)
Service # 8199607
Unit United States Naval Reserve
Rank Coxswain U.S. Navy
Status Missing In Action
THOERNER, Henry B, COX, 8199607, USNR, from Pennsylvania, USS Mount Hood, location Admiralty Islands, missing, date of loss November 10, 1944 .
Source material from multiple public domain websites.
Remembered by Buffalo (50696055)
SS Marco Polo was a cargo ship built under a US Maritime Commission contract (as MC hull 1356), by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Co., Wilmington, North Carolina.
The ship was renamed Mount Hood on 10 November 1943; launched on 28 November 1943; acquired by the Navy on loan-charter basis on 28 January 1944; converted by the Norfolk Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Norfolk, Virginia, and the Norfolk Navy Yard; and commissioned on 1 July 1944.
USS Mount Hood (AE-11) was the lead ship of her class of ammunition ships for the United States Navy in World War II. She was the first ship named after Mount Hood, a volcano in the Cascade Range in the US state of Oregon. On 10 November 1944, shortly after 18 men had departed for shore leave, the rest of the crew were killed when the ship exploded in Seeadler Harbor at Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
S/O Martha J (Bibleheimer) & Henry Peter Thoerner
Wife was Elsie Grace (Templin) Thoerner (m. 1941)
Service # 8199607
Unit United States Naval Reserve
Rank Coxswain U.S. Navy
Status Missing In Action
THOERNER, Henry B, COX, 8199607, USNR, from Pennsylvania, USS Mount Hood, location Admiralty Islands, missing, date of loss November 10, 1944 .
Source material from multiple public domain websites.
Remembered by Buffalo (50696055)
The ship was renamed Mount Hood on 10 November 1943; launched on 28 November 1943; acquired by the Navy on loan-charter basis on 28 January 1944; converted by the Norfolk Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Norfolk, Virginia, and the Norfolk Navy Yard; and commissioned on 1 July 1944.
USS Mount Hood (AE-11) was the lead ship of her class of ammunition ships for the United States Navy in World War II. She was the first ship named after Mount Hood, a volcano in the Cascade Range in the US state of Oregon. On 10 November 1944, shortly after 18 men had departed for shore leave, the rest of the crew were killed when the ship exploded in Seeadler Harbor at Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
S/O Martha J (Bibleheimer) & Henry Peter Thoerner
Wife was Elsie Grace (Templin) Thoerner (m. 1941)
Service # 8199607
Unit United States Naval Reserve
Rank Coxswain U.S. Navy
Status Missing In Action
THOERNER, Henry B, COX, 8199607, USNR, from Pennsylvania, USS Mount Hood, location Admiralty Islands, missing, date of loss November 10, 1944 .
Source material from multiple public domain websites.
Remembered by Buffalo (50696055)
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Entered the service from Pennsylvania.
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