USS ''Glynn'' (APA-239) was a that was built for service with the
US Navy in
World War II on the
Victory ship design. She was commissioned shortly after the war and consequently never saw action.
''Glynn'' was named after
Glynn County, Georgia. She was launched 25 August 1945 under Maritime Commission contract by the
Oregon Shipbuilding
Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation was a World War II emergency shipyard located along the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States. The shipyard built nearly 600 Liberty and Victory ships between 1941 and 1945 under the Emergency ...
Corporation of
Portland, Oregon, and acquired and simultaneously commissioned 17 October 1945.
Operational history
Post-World War II
''Glynn'' sailed from
San Diego 21 December 1945 on an
Operation Magic Carpet
Operation Magic Carpet was the post-World War II operation by the War Shipping Administration to repatriate over eight million American military personnel from the European, Pacific, and Asian theaters. Hundreds of Liberty ships, Victory ships ...
voyage to the
Philippines and reached
Samar on 8 January 1946. After touching
Guam and
Saipan
Saipan ( ch, Sa’ipan, cal, Seipél, formerly in es, Saipán, and in ja, 彩帆島, Saipan-tō) is the largest island of the Northern Mariana Islands, a Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), commonwealth of the United States in the western Pa ...
, she returned to
San Pedro, Philippines and sailed thence for battle-scarred
Okinawa, arriving 14 April. Underway the next day for the
United States, ''Glynn'' rode into
San Diego Harbor again 30 April at voyage's end.
[
Two more round trip voyages, both out of San Francisco, brought the busy ship to Kwajalein, Bikini, the Philippines, and Okinawa from 21 May to 28 June 1946, and to Pearl Harbor, returning to the Golden Gate 26 July 1946.][
]
Second commission
''Glynn'' was decommissioned 12 December 1946 remaining in reserve until recommissioned 3 March 1951 at San Francisco. Training exercises off southern California occupied her until she steamed for the Atlantic, reaching Norfolk, Virginia
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on 25 July 1951. Subsequently, she conducted peacetime training exercises in the Caribbean
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and Atlantic, exacting duty which included voyages to Greenland, Labrador, Nova Scotia, Caribbean islands
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, and operations along the whole length of the Eastern seaboard. In addition, she conducted training cruises for Midshipmen.[
]
Final decommission
Following inactivation overhaul at New York
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''Glynn'' put in at Charleston, South Carolina
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8 June 1955 where she was decommissioned 9 September 1955. The ship remained in reserve until transferred to the custody of the Maritime Administration (MARAD) on 3 March 1960 and berthed in the James River
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National Defense Reserve Fleet and permanently transferred to MARAD on 30 June. On 1 July 1960 ''Glynn'' was stricken from the Navy List.
References
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Haskell-class attack transports
Glynn County, Georgia
World War II amphibious warfare vessels of the United States
Ships built in Portland, Oregon
1945 ships