USS Tryon (APH-1)
USS Tryon (APH-1) in San Francisco Bay shortly before deployment.
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| Name: | USS Tryon |
| Namesake: | James R. Tryon |
| Builder: | Moore Dry Dock Company, Oakland, California |
| Laid down: | 26 March 1941 |
| Launched: | 21 October 1941 as SS Alcoa Courier |
| Commissioned: | 30 September 1942 as Tryon (APH-1) |
| Decommissioned: | 20 March 1946 |
| Struck: | 17 April 1946 |
| Honours and awards: |
6 battle stars (WWII) |
| Fate: | Transferred to the US Army, 17 July 1946 |
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| Name: | USAT Sgt. Charles E. Mower |
| Namesake: | Charles E. Mower |
| Acquired: | 17 July 1946 |
| In service: | 25 August 1947 |
| Out of service: | 1950 |
| Fate: | Transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service |
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| Name: | USNS Sgt. Charles E. Mower (T-AP-186) |
| Acquired: | 1 March 1950 |
| In service: | 1950 |
| Out of service: | 16 June 1954 |
| Struck: | 1 July 1960 |
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| Type: | Tryon-class Evacuation Transport |
| Displacement: | 9,920 long tons (10,079 t) light |
| Length: | 450 ft (140 m) |
| Beam: | 62 ft (19 m) |
| Draft: | 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam turbine, single shaft, 8,500 hp (6,338 kW) |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Capacity: | 1,274 troops |
| Complement: | 460 officers and enlisted |
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USS Tryon (APH-1) was laid down as SS Alcoa Courier (MC hull 175) on 26 March 1941, by the Moore Dry Dock Company, Oakland, California and launched on 21 October 1941 sponsored by Mrs. Roy G. Hunt. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, she was designated for U.S. Navy use and assigned the name Comfort in June 1942. Comfort was renamed Tryon on 13 August 1942, acquired by the U.S. Navy on 29 September 1942, and commissioned on 30 September 1942, with Comdr. Alfred J. Byrholdt in command.
Tryon, an Evacuation Transport, got underway for San Diego on 9 October 1942 and departed from there on the 21st, bound for New Caledonia. On 7 November, she arrived at Noumea; joined the Service Squadron, South Pacific; and remained with that organization for the next 15 months, evacuating combat casualties from the Solomons to Suva, Noumea, Wellington, Auckland, and Brisbane. On her return trips to the forward areas, she carried priority cargo and troops for forces fighting the Japanese.
Tryon's first combat duty came in the Marianas during the summer of 1944. On 16 July, she joined Task Force 51 at Lunga Point and sortied for the invasion of Tinian. The hospital transport arrived off the beaches on the 24th, combat loaded with troops and equipment. After unloading, she embarked casualties for a week and then got underway for the Marshalls. The ship called at Eniwetok, New Caledonia, Espiritu Santo, and the Russell Islands before anchoring off Guadalcanal on 27 August 1944.
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