uss "roamer" (af-19) was the danish refrigerated motorship african reefer, completed 1935, of the j. lauritzen shipping company which had put in at madeira after germany occupied denmark. the ship later sailed to a u.s. port on assurances it would be treated equally with u.s. vessels chartered for war purposes. instead it was seized by the united states maritime commission and placed in service under war shipping administration (wsa) allotment to commercial, army transport and finally navy use at half the rate paid for u.s. ships. the agreed to rate was not restored until 1958 after a supreme court judgement and congressional action.