Fayette, APA-43, was a Bayfield-class attack transport. Ingalls Shipbuilding at Pascagoula, Mississippi, launched her on 25 February 1943 as the merchant hull Sea Hawk, Maritime Commission hull 391, and she was first designated a transport, AP-88. The Navy acquired her on 30 April 1943 and placed her in partial commission for the trip to Baltimore. She was decommissioned there on 13 May for conversion and recommissioned as Fayette on 14 October 1943, Commander John C. Lester in command.
She carried Marines from Norfolk to Pearl Harbor, arriving on 21 December 1943, then embarked soldiers and sailed from Honolulu on 22 January 1944. She landed her troops at Kwajalein on 1 February, a day after the first assault. For four days she unloaded combat cargo and received casualties, whom she passed to a hospital ship. She sailed for Funafuti on 5 February.
For Guam she was held at Eniwetok when the landing was postponed, sailed again on 17 July, sent her boats in with the assault troops on 21 July, and took casualties from the shore for four days. At Peleliu on 15 September 1944 she was loaded with wounded within five days. She landed her troops at Leyte on 20 October, fired twice to drive off air attacks at Morotai and again at Lingayen Gulf on 9 January 1945, where she joined the barrage that drove a dive bomber off before it could strike a nearby battleship. She landed reinforcements at Iwo Jima on 24 February 1945 and carried casualties back to Tulagi and Noumea.
After a west coast overhaul she carried occupation troops to the Far East from 28 August to 13 November 1945. She was decommissioned at Mobile, Alabama, on 6 March 1946 and transferred to the Maritime Commission on 19 April. She was sold for merchant service in 1947 as Robin Gray, later Grey, and was scrapped at Kaohsiung in 1972. She earned six battle stars.