USS Heywood (AP-12) was a United States Navy transport and the name ship of the Heywood class. Bethlehem Steel built her at Alameda, and the Navy commissioned her on 7 November 1940.
She went to sea as a transport under the hull number AP-12. Later the Navy redesignated her APA-6, and she kept the name Heywood.
On 7 August 1942 she took part in the landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi. Captain Herbert Bain Knowles was in command that day. Heywood landed troops at Tulagi. She finished there and, the same day, came across to Beach Red. The ship survived the war. She was decommissioned at Boston on 12 April 1946.