General Frank M. Coxe was a steam ferry which was built for the United States Army to provide transportation services among several military facilities that ring California's San Francisco Bay.

The 144-foot (44 m) ship's keel was laid on July 16, 1921, launched March 3, 1922, and delivered December 1, 1922, to the War Department by Charles Ward Engineering Works.

Hyde were designed and built shortly after World War I to ferry army personnel to island bases in strategic harbors, in answer to the increasing military importance of the Pacific ports.

[3] General Frank M. Coxe was not a United States Navy ship; it was among the thousands of vessels owned and operated by the US Army for specific logistical purposes.

Hyde (built 1921), to Cox & Stevens' design #244 by Charles Ward Engineering Works[5] of Charleston, West Virginia,[6] located on the Kanawha River, a firm which specialized in shallow draft vessels such as ferries, riverboats, and tugs.

The General Frank M. Coxe was an active military vessel on San Francisco Bay from the 1922 to 1947, being decommissioned and sold for surplus in 1947 after the end of World War II.

Although a count of both the soldiers on the Coxe and the prisoners working on the docks alerted the authorities to an escape, an error in communication and forged documents allowed Giles to land at Fort McDowell.

Fort McDowell, after 1932 a facility of the San Francisco Port of Embarkation, became a critical processing center of the for US troops heading to the Pacific theater of battle with U.S. entry into World War II.

[13] After her military service the General Frank M. Coxe was bought by the Golden Gate Scenic Steamship Line,[16] which now operate the Red & White Fleet[17] of ferry and tour boats on San Francisco Bay.