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Montrose

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ClassHaskell class
TypeTransport (AP)
HullAPA-212
BuilderPermanente Metals, Richmond
Launched1944-09-13
Commissioned1944-11-02
FateAfloat. She survived the war with one battle star on her record.

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

Montrose
USS Montrose (APA-212) underway on 19 March 1969, wearing hull number 212. U.S. Navy photograph NH 107722. Public domain.

Montrose (APA-212) served as an attack transport of the Haskell class. Permanente Metals built her at Richmond. She was launched on 13 September 1944 and commissioned on 2 November 1944.

On 26 March 1945 she was in the landings at Kerama Retto. On 2 April two kamikazes fell to her guns.

Menna-shima, off Okinawa, was her stop on 15 April. Units of the 306th Field Artillery went ashore there from her decks.

She survived the war. One battle star stands on her record.

The pictures on this page are the originals.