Pinetree Line Miscellaneous

APA-239 USS Glynn

Haskell class Attack Transport:
Displacement: 14,800 tons
Length: 455'
Beam: 62'
Draft: 28'
Speed: 16.5 knots
Armament: 1 5"/38 DP, 4x2 40mm, 1x4 40mm, 10 20mm
Complement: 536
Geared turbine engines, single screw, 8,500 shaft hp
Built at Oregon Shipbuilding, and commissioned 17 October 1945 8,500.

The USS Glynn (APA 239) was launched 25 August 1945 under Maritime Commission contract by the Oregon Shipbuilding Corp., Portland, Oreg.; sponsored by Mrs. Homer D Angell; and acquired and simultaneously commissioned 17 October 1945, Comdr. Ben Koerner, USNR, command.

The USS Glynn sailed from San Diego 21 December 1945 on a "Magic-Carpet" voyage to the Philippines and reached Samar 8 January 1946. After touching Guam and Saipan, she returned to San Pedro, PI, and sailed thence for battle-scarred Okinawa, arriving 14 April. Underway the next day for the United States, The 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.

Decommissioned 12 December 1946, the USS Glynn remained 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 25 July 1951. Subsequently she conducted peacetime training exercises in the Caribbean and Atlantic, exacting duty which included voyages to Greenland, Nova Scotia, Caribbean islands, and operations along the whole length of the Eastern seaboard.