the ship was the first of two to leave for the European Theater of Operations in July, 1944. European OperationsJunior Van Noy sailed for the European Theater in late July 1944 from Halifax in Convoy number HXS300 arriving in August. The arrival of the ship is noted in The Corps of Engineers: The War Against Germany: CHAPTER XVI Developing Beaches and Reconstructing Ports: On 10 August the engineers working on the Cherbourg quays saw a new kind of ship steaming into the harbor. She was the Junior N. Van Noy, the first engineer port repair ship sent overseas. A converted Great Lakes steamer displacing only 3,000 tons, the ship had machine shops, storage bins, and heavy salvage equipment aboard. Her decks bristled with derricks and booms for lifting sunken ships and other debris. Manning the ship was the sixty-member 1071st Engineer Port Repair Ship Crew. At Cherbourg the ship was first under control of the 1056th Engineer Port Construction and Repair Group then passed to the control of the 1055th Engineer Port Construction and Repair Group. The Junior N. Van Noy left Cherbourg 3 October 1944 bound for Le Havre with the 1055th Port Construction and Repair Group. Disposal The ship was declared surplus and placed custody of the Maritime Commission 20 August 1947 for disposal, first in the reserve fleet at Brunswick, Georgia then in the James River in Virginia. On 1 July 1949 the ship, converted to a barge in 1946 and not self propelled, was sold to Eastern Transportation Company. Renamed Kathleen Sheridan'' the barge sank at the dock at Arthur Kill, Perth Amboy, New Jersey in 1964. References External links United States Army in World War II - The Corps of Engineers: Troops and Equipment - Chapter XVII - Preparing to Reconstruct Ports The Corps of Engineers: The War Against Germany: CHAPTER XVI Developing Beaches and Reconstructing Ports Popular Science, October 1944: How Seagoing Shops Clear Captured Ports (Van Noy illustrations) Port repair ships of the United States Army 1919 ships Ships built in Ecorse, Michigan