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USS Montrose (APA-212)

USS Montrose (LPA-212).jpg
History
United States
Name: Montrose
Namesake: Montrose County, Colorado
Ordered: as a Type VC2-S-AP5 hull, MCE hull 560
Builder: Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond, California
Yard number: 560
Laid down: 17 June 1944
Launched: 13 September 1944
Sponsored by: Mrs Marcia C. Barnhart
Commissioned: 2 November 1944
Decommissioned: 26 October 1946
Identification:
Honors and
awards:		 1 × battle star for World War II service
Fate: laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Stockton Group, 26 October 1946
United States
Recommissioned: 12 September 1950
Decommissioned: 2 November 1969
Struck: 2 November 1969
Identification:
  • Hull symbol: APA-212
  • Hull symbol: LPA-212
Honors and
awards:
  • 3 × battle stars for Korean War service
  • 6 × battle stars for Vietnam War service
Fate: returned to the Maritime Administration (MARAD), 2 November 1969, laid up in the Bremerton Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington
Status: sold for scrapping, 4 June 1970, withdrawn, 10 June 1970
General characteristics
Class and type: Haskell-class attack transport
Type: Type VC2-S-AP5
Displacement:
  • 6,873 long tons (6,983 t) (light load)
  • 14,837 long tons (15,075 t) (full load)
Length: 455 ft (139 m)
Beam: 62 ft (19 m)
Draft: 24 ft (7.3 m)
Installed power:
Propulsion:
Speed: 17.7 kn (32.8 km/h; 20.4 mph)
Boats & landing
craft carried:
Capacity:
  • 2,900 long tons (2,900 t) DWT
  • 150,000 cu ft (4,200 m3) (non-refrigerated)
Troops: 86 officers, 1,475 enlisted
Complement: 99 officers, 503 enlisted
Armament:
Service record
Part of: TransRon 17 (WWII)
Operations:
  • World War II
  • Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto (26 March–26 April 1945)
  • Korean War
  • First UN Counter Offensive (9–11 February, 12 March–12 April 1951)
  • Communist China Spring Offensive (23–25 April, 13–14 May, 5–6 June 1951)
  • UN Summer–Fall Offensive (12 July 1951)
  • Vietnam War
  • Vietnam Defense(8–18 November, 20 November–4 December, 10–24 December 1965)
  • Vietnam Counteroffensive (25 December 1965, 28 January–1 March 1966)
  • Vietnam Counteroffensive–Phase II (23 March–28 April, 25–27 May 1967)
  • Vietnam Counteroffensive–Phase III (6–7 June 1967)
  • Vietnam Counteroffensive–Phase V (30 August–1 September 1968)
  • Vietnam Counteroffensive–Phase VI (28 November–11 December 1968, 8–9 January 1969)
Awards:

USS Montrose (APA/LPA-212) was a Haskell-class attack transport of the US Navy in World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War. She was of the VC2-S-AP5 Victory ship design type. Montrose was named for Montrose County, Colorado.

Montrose was laid down 17 June 1944, under Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract , MCV hull 560, by Permanente Metals Corporation, Yard No. 2, Richmond, California; launched 13 September 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Marcia C. Barnhart; and commissioned 2 November 1944, Commander Hallock G. Davis in command.

After shakedown off California, Montrose embarked troops at Seattle, Washington, and steamed to the Philippines, arriving at Leyte 21 February, to prepare for the invasion of the Okinawa.

Montrose participated in the landings in Kerama Retto 26 March, and on 2 April, shot down two kamikazes. She steamed to Menna-shima off Okinawa 15 April, and disembarked units of the 306th Field Artillery. Four days later she took part in a diversionary feint on the southwest tip of Okinawa, returning to Menna Shima 23 April. Leaving the Ryukus she sailed to Ulithi with Army casualties, en route to San Francisco to embark more troops. She debarked these units at Manila 27 July.


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