USS Doyen (APA-1)

USS Doyen (APA-1), 7 June 1943
History
United States
Name:	USS Doyen
Namesake:	BGen Charles A. Doyen, USMC
Builder:	Consolidated Steel
Launched:	9 July 1942
Sponsored by:	Miss. F. D. Johnson, granddaughter of BGen Doyen
Acquired:	20 April 1943
Commissioned:	22 May 1943
Decommissioned:	20 March 1946
Reclassified:	AP-2 to APA-1, 1 February 1943
Struck:	22 March 1946
Identification:	MC hull type P1-S2-L2, MC hull no. 181
Honors and awards:	Six battle stars for World War II service
Fate:	Sold for scrap, 23 January 1973
General characteristics
Class and type:	Doyen-class attack transport
Displacement:	4,351 tons (lt)
Length:	414 ft 6 in (126.34 m)
Beam:	56 ft (17 m)
Draft:	19 ft (5.8 m)
Propulsion:	2 x turbine engines, twin screws, horsepower 8,000
Speed:	18 knots
Complement:	453
Armament:	4 x 3"/50 caliber dual-purpose gun mounts, secondary armament unknown

USS Doyen (APA-1) was a Doyen-class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II. She was the second Navy ship named for United States Marine Corps Brigadier General Charles A. Doyen (1859–1918), who served in World War I, commanding 5th Marine Regiment, 4th Brigade, and 2nd Infantry Division.

Doyen was launched as transport AP-2 on 9 July 1942 by Consolidated Steel of Los Angeles, California, under a Maritime Commission contract; sponsored by Miss F. D. Johnson, granddaughter of BGen Doyen; reclassified APA-1, 1 February 1943; acquired by the Navy 20 April 1943 and converted at Bethlehem Steel of San Pedro, California; and commissioned 22 May 1943, Commander P. F. Dugan in command.

Doyen sailed from San Francisco on 9 July 1943 carrying troops to the Aleutians for the invasion of Kiska from 14 to 21 August, then returned by way of Pearl Harbor to San Francisco, arriving on 11 September. A week later she got underway from San Diego to embark Marines at Pearl Harbor for New Zealand.