Launched on Nov. 28, 1943 in Wilmington, North Carolina the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood AE-11 made
only one voyage in the service of the US Government. She sailed on Aug. 21, 1944 for the Admiralty Islands
with a hold full of ordnance for the troops in the Pacific. She arrived in Manus on Sept. 22, 1943 and began
supplying the ships destine for the Philippines invasion.

She was still there on Nov. 10, 1944 when at 08:55 the ship was destroyed by a terrific explosion. The blast
was so powerful it not only destroyed the Mount Hood but it damaged several other ships in the bay. In total three hundred and seventy-two people were killed, 296 on Mount Hood and 44 others, including 23 on the USS Mindanao ARG-3.

USS Mount Hood AE-11 seen in July 1944.

The explosion at Seeadler Harbor.