abstract
| - USS Seginus (AK-133) was an Crater-class cargo ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II. She was responsible for delivering troops, goods and equipment to locations in the war zone. Seginus (AK-133), built under Maritime Commission contract (MCE hull 2453), was laid down as SS Harry Toulmin on 10 January 1944 by the Delta Shipbuilding Co., Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana; launched as Seginus on 4 March 1944; sponsored by Mrs. J. Lester White; acquired by the Navy on a bareboat charter on 12 April 1944; converted at the Waterman SS Co., repair yard, Mobile, Alabama; and commissioned on 14 June 1944, Lt. Comdr. W.L. Cain, USNR, in command.
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