USS Weiss (APD-135)

History
United States
Name:	USS Weiss
Namesake:	Carl W. Weiss
Ordered:	1942
Builder:	Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan
Laid down:	14 October 1944
Launched:	17 February 1945
Commissioned:	7 July 1945
Decommissioned:	2 May 1949
Recommissioned:	14 October 1950
Decommissioned:	2 March 1958
Recommissioned:	20 November 1961
Decommissioned:	January 1970
Reclassified:	LPR-135, 1 January 1969
Struck:	15 September 1974
Honors and awards:	3 battle stars (Korea) 7 battle stars (Vietnam)
Fate:	Sold for scrap, 24 June 1976
General characteristics
Class and type:	Crosley-class high speed transport
Displacement:	1,450 long tons (1,473 t)
Length:	306 ft (93 m)
Beam:	36 ft 10 in (11.23 m)
Draft:	13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Propulsion:	2 × Combustion Engineering DR boilers Turbo-electric drive with 2 × General Electric steam turbines 2 × solid manganese-bronze 3600 lb. 3-bladed propellers, 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m), 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) pitch 12,000 hp (8.9 MW) 2 rudders 359 tons fuel oil
Speed:	23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)
Range:	3,700 nmi (6,900 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Boats & landing craft carried:	4 × LCVPs
Troops:	162 troops
Complement:	204 (12 officers, 192 enlisted)
Armament:	1 × 5"/38 caliber gun 3 × twin 40 mm guns 6 × single 20 mm guns 2 × depth charge tracks

The second USS Weiss (APD/LPR-135) was a Crosley-class high speed transport, the second ship of the United States Navy to be assigned the name Weiss, after Marine sergeant Carl W. Weiss (1915–1942), who was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his actions during the Battle of Guadalcanal.

Originally designated DE-719, a Rudderow-class destroyer escort, Weiss was re-designated as APD-135, a fast transport, on 17 July 1944, even before being laid down on 4 October 1944 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company, in Bay City, Michigan. She was launched on 17 February 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Anna Weiss. Builders trials before her pre-commissioning cruise were done in Lake Huron.

After completion, Weiss sailed from the builder's yard at Bay City to Chicago, Illinois. From there, they went through the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and down the Chicago River to Joliet, Illinois, where pontoons were attached to the ship so it could be pushed down the Des Plaines River, Illinois River, and Mississippi River as part of a barge train. After arriving at the Todd Johnson Shipyard in Algiers, Louisiana, on the west bank of the Mississippi at New Orleans, the rest of the crew reported aboard, and Weiss was commissioned at New Orleans, on 7 July 1945, with Lieutenant Commander Thomas D. Morris in command.

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