USS Grundy (APA-111)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Grundy (APA-111) |
| Namesake: | Counties in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, and Virginia |
| Builder: | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
| Launched: | 16 June 1944 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs Lena Moore Gnatt |
| Commissioned: | 3 January 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 8 May 1946 |
| Fate: | Unknown |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Windsor-class attack transport |
| Displacement: | 8,393 tons (lt) |
| Length: | 492 ft |
| Beam: | 69 ft 6 in |
| Draft: | 26 ft 6 in |
| Propulsion: | Steam turbine engine, single propeller, 8,000shp |
| Speed: | 18 knots |
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| Complement: | Officer 42 Enlisted 434 |
| Armament: | 1 x 5"/38 caliber dual-purpose gun mounts, 2 x Bofors 40mm gun mounts, 2 x twin 20mm gun mounts, 18 x single 20mm gun mounts |
| Notes: | MCV Hull No. ?, hull type C3-S-A3 |
USS Grundy (APA-111) was a Windsor-class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II. She was commissioned late in the war and initially assigned to transport duties; consequently she did not take part in any combat operations.
Grundy was launched under Maritime Commission contract 16 June 1944 by Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi; and commissioned 3 January 1945, Captain J. M. Cabanillas in command.
After loading supplies at New Orleans, the new transport conducted shakedown training out of Galveston, Texas, until 28 January 1945. She departed 4 February for her first assignment, as school ship for pre-commissioning crews at Newport, Rhode Island. Arriving Newport 10 February, Grundy held underway drills and training for the crews of nearly finished ships, helping to speed their delivery as active fighting units. This duty was completed 31 March, and Grundy sailed for Hampton Roads.
The ship arrived Norfolk, Virginia, 1 April and immediately embarked Seabees for transportation to the Pacific. Departing 14 April, she sailed to Pearl Harbor via the Panama Canal, arriving there 2 May 1945. At Pearl Harbor Grundy performed amphibious exercises and loaded cargo and passengers for the western Pacific. She departed 7 June; stopped at Eniwetok, Guam, and Saipan; and anchored 1 July at Ulithi to join an Okinawa-bound convoy.
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