USS Barnett was a United States Navy transport. She was numbered AP-11 and was later designated APA-5. The ship survived.
On 7 August 1942 Barnett took part in the landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi. She was assigned to Transport Division B and lay off Beach Red.
In that division off Beach Red she was in company with McCawley, George F. Elliott, and Libra. The four transports held the division station for the landings that day.
Henry Ehrman Thornhill was in command of Barnett on 7 August 1942, while she lay off Beach Red with Transport Division B.
Her place in the landings was that of a transport in the division off Beach Red. Carried first as AP-11 and later as APA-5, Barnett survived.