USS Marmora (IX-189)-- Part 1: Lend-Leased to Soviet Union

From Wikipedia.

I have been writing about the Civil War USS Marmora a lot in my Running the Blockade Civil War Navy blog.this past week.  There was one other USS Marmora which served during World War II.

From Wikipedia.

U.S. Navy tanker serving between 1944 and 1946.  Saw service as a mobile floating warehouse in the aftermath of the war.  Built as the SS Montrolite in Seattle, Washington in 1918.  Renamed  the SS J.S. Fitzsimmons in 1926 while involved in commercial service.

Standard Oil of California chartered her to the U.S. government in 1942.  Under the Lend-Lease Act the ship was transferred to the Soviet Union on 14 October 1942. and was renamed the SS Valerian Kuybyshev in their service.

Transferred back to the U.S. 13 December 1944 and name changed to USS Marmora (IX-189).

--GreGen