Posted by William J Nicholas on June 18, 2011, 11:51 am
Thai is the last that served on but i cannot remember the name. I was assigned to it on Dec 1944 June 1945.Can you find the name
Thanks, Bill Nicholas
Re: Name of Liberty Ship
Posted by Kathryn on November 12, 2011, 9:35 am, in reply to "Name of Liberty Ship"
I am the daughter of William J Nicholas...full name William Jesse Nicholas. My father passed on November 10, 2011 and, in my random searches on the computer, I stumbled upon this thread that he began on June 18. I am uncertain what my father meant by "Thai" and think that it might have been a typo...he may have meant to type the word "This" or maybe "That." If you discover any more info about William Jesse Nicholas, during the war, I would be very interested to know. Thank you.
Re: Name of Liberty Ship
Posted by Harvel Arnold on June 21, 2011, 10:01 am, in reply to "Name of Liberty Ship"
Found 2 entries on ancestry.com that fit the dates given William J. Nicholas S1c 610 23 73 armed guard crew on SS Robert Luckenbach departed Cardiff Wales no date given Arrived New York on 29 March 1945 William J. Nicholas armed guard crew on SS Thomas Wolfe departes Newport Wales no date arrived New York 22 April 1945 Hope this helps and thank you for your service
A correction on the Ancestry.com record of the serial number for William J. Nicholas, S1/c, SS ROBERT LUCKENBACH, arriving New York 29 March 1945. The correct serial number is 610 33 73.
This is the same serial number as that assigned to a William John Nicholas, S1/c, arriving New York on 19 April 1943 aboard SS LAWTON B EVANS. This is irrelevant to your question except to confirm the middle name John. Note that there was another Armed Guard sailor named William Jesse Nicholas, who therefore could have also been identified as William J. Nicholas, and it is easily possible to mis-identify the two men and their records.
Therefore I will assume the full name of the author of the original message in this string is William John Nicholas, and that he served in ROBERT LUCKENBACH and possibly THOMAS WOLFE during the period December 1944 to June 1945. The Ancestry.com record for William J. Nicholas aboard THOMAS WOLFE does not include a serial number. Therefore we cannot be sure whether the William J. Nicholas in THOMAS WOLFE was William John or William Jesse Nicholas.
Other pages in the Ancestry.com record for THOMAS WOLFE, however, indicate the ship left Newport, Wales, on March 28, 1945, one day before ROBERT LUCKENBACH arrived in New York. Therefore it is unlikely that the William J. Nicholas aboard THOMAS WOLFE was William John Nicholas but more likely was William Jesse Nicholas.
My conclusion, unless the author of the original message is NOT named William John Nicholas, is that he served in ROBERT LUCKENBACH but NOT in THOMAS WOLFE.
Ron Carlson, Webmaster
Re: Name of Liberty Ship
Posted by Ron Carlson on June 21, 2011, 8:08 am, in reply to "Name of Liberty Ship"
Bill,
Can you be more specific? What do you mean by "Thai"? Was that part of the ship's name?
Ron Carlson, Webmaster Armed Guard / Merchant Marine website www.armed-guard.com