Cape Newenham was a type C1-B small cargo ship built for the United States Maritime Commission during World War II.
The ship was completed on 24 April 1943,[1] and made a maiden voyage from San Francisco to Brisbane, Port Moresby, and Gladstone, before returning to Oakland, California in August, where Moore Dry Dock Company completed conversion to a troop transport in December.
After returning to San Francisco, the ship moved to Seattle in May and traveled via Honolulu to Saipan and Enewetak Atoll.
The ship returned to San Francisco in August and completed another voyage to the Pacific islands including Guam before the end of the year.
[3] The ship returned to San Francisco in March, and departed in April for a final round trip to Manila before being mothballed in the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet on 25 June 1946.