USS Randall (APA-224)

USS Randall (APA-224,) underway, date and location unknown.
History
United States
Name:	Randall
Namesake:	Randall County, Texas
Ordered:	as a Type VC2-S-AP5 hull, MCE hull 572
Builder:	Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond, California
Yard number:	572
Laid down:	15 September 1944
Launched:	15 November 1944
Sponsored by:	Mrs. Donald D. Dick
Commissioned:	12 December 1944
Decommissioned:	6 April 1956
Struck:	1 July 1960
Identification:	Hull symbol: APA-224 Code letters: NPRK
Fate:	laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Orange, Texas, Group, 6 April 1956 reassigned to the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Mobile, Alabama, 19 February 1960
Status:	sold, 28 October 1971, withdrawn, 12 January 1972
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:	2 × Babcock & Wilcox header-type boilers, 465 psi (3,210 kPa) 750 °F (399 °C) 8,500 shp (6,338 kW)
Propulsion:	1 × Westinghouse geared turbine 1 x propeller
Speed:	17.7 kn (32.8 km/h; 20.4 mph)
Boats & landing craft carried:	2 × LCMs 1 × open LCPL 18 × LCVPs 2 × LCPRs 1 × closed LCPL (Captain's Gig)
Capacity:	2,900 long tons (2,900 t) DWT 150,000 cu ft (4,200 m3) (non-refrigerated)
Troops:	87 officers, 1,475 enlisted
Complement:	56 officers, 480 enlisted
Armament:	1 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber dual purpose gun 1 × quad 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors anti-aircraft (AA) gun mounts 4 × twin 40mm Bofors (AA) gun mounts 10 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon cannons AA mounts
Service record
Part of:	TransRon 23
Awards:	China Service Medal American Campaign Medal Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal Navy Occupation Service Medal National Defense Service Medal

USS Randall (APA-224) was a Haskell-class attack transport of that saw service with the US Navy in World War II. She was of the VC2-S-AP5 Victory ship design type and named after Randall County, Texas.

She was laid down 15 September 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MCV Hull 572, by Permanente Metals Corporation, Yard No. 2, Richmond, California; launched 15 November 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Donald D. Dick; and acquired by the Navy and commissioned 16 December 1944, Captain, later Rear Admiral, Harold R. Stevens in command.

Following shakedown and training off the California coast, Randall left for Pearl Harbor on 9 February 1945, from San Diego. She then sailed to the Volcano Islands, via Eniwetok. She arrived at Iwo Jima on 25 March, unloaded US Army personnel and supplies, and embarked Marines for transportation to Guam. The ship returned to Pearl Harbor 20 April, where she loaded drummed petroleum products for Kwajalein and took on Navy and Marine personnel for return to the US. Arriving in San Francisco on 18 June, she proceeded to Ulithi 9 July, embarking Army units, and then continued to Okinawa, ariving 12 August.