USS Logan
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USS Logan (APA-196)
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| Name: | USS Logan |
| Builder: | Kaiser Co., Vancouver, Washington |
| Laid down: | 27 May 1944 |
| Launched: | 19 September 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 14 October 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 27 November 1946 |
| Recommissioned: | 10 November 1951 |
| Decommissioned: | 14 June 1955 |
| Struck: | 1 July 1960 |
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| Fate: | Scrapped |
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| Class and type: | Haskell-class attack transport |
| Displacement: | 6,873 long tons (6,983 t) |
| Length: | 455 ft (139 m) |
| Beam: | 62 ft (19 m) |
| Draft: | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
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| Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
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| Complement: | 56 Officers, 480 Enlisted |
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USS Logan (APA-196) was a Haskell-class attack transport of the United States Navy, named for counties in Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, Nebraska, North Dakota, and West Virginia. The Haskell-class design, Maritime Commission standard type VC2-S-AP5, is a sub type of the World War II Victory ship design.
The ship was laid down on 27 May 1944 by Kaiser Co., Vancouver, Washington; launched 19 September 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Paul E. Lattner; acquired by the Navy; and commissioned on 14 October 1944, Comdr. Joseph H. Foley in command.
After shakedown off Santa Barbara during November, the new attack transport steamed to Pearl Harbor for two months of rigorous training with Vice Admiral Richmond K. Turner's TF 51 in preparation for the assault on Iwo Jima. Departing Hawaii on 26 January 1945, the ship stopped at Saipan, to use that recently liberated rugged atoll for five more days of very realistic training. She left Saipan on 16 February and on the 19th sighted the lamb chop-shaped little island of Iwo Jima, outlined against the morning sky by the battleship barrage that had been pounding the Japanese stronghold for several days. Pulling to within 1,000 yards (900 m) of the volcanic beaches, Logan lowered all boats, completing the intricate operation in under 30 minutes. Immediately thereafter, the beachmasters, engineers, and quartermasters were quickly dispatched ashore. During the early afternoon of "D-Day", Logan began the daily routine that was to last for nine days; receiving casualties from the beach to be treated by the ship's medical department and meanwhile unloading the vital combat gear as rapidly as possible to the LSMs and LSTs waiting alongside.
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