High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas H. Barry was a troop transport that served with the U.S. Army during World War II. Intended for transfer to the United States Navy and assigned the hull number AP-45, she never served in that role but stayed an army troopship. Prior to her war service, she served for 11 years as the ocean liner SS Oriente. SS Oriente—a steel-hulled, twin-screw passenger and cargo ship launched on 15 May 1930 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, for the New York and Cuba Mail and Steamship Company's Ward Line. She was the sister to the infamous ill-fated Morro Castle that was destroyed in a fire that killed 134 people. The Oriente was acquired by the War Department in June 1941 for use as an Army transport, who named her the USAT Thomas H. Barry.

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