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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USSBollinger (APA-234) |
| Namesake | Bollinger County, Missouri |
| Builder | Kaiser Shipbuilding |
| Laid down | 7 October 1944 |
| Launched | 19 November 1944 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs T. Mead |
| Acquired | 8 December 1944 |
| Commissioned | 9 December 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 1 April 1947 |
| Reclassified | LPA-234, 1 January 1969 |
| Stricken | 22 May 1947 |
| Honours & awards | Twobattle stars forWorld War II |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1982 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Haskell-classattack transport |
| Displacement | 6,720 tons (lt), 14,837 t. (fl) |
| Length | 455 ft |
| Beam | 62 ft |
| Draft | 24 ft |
| Propulsion | 1 xJoshua Hendy geared turbine, 2 xBabcock & Wilcox header-type boilers, 1 x propeller, designed shafthorsepower 8,500 |
| Speed | 17.5knots |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 2 xLCM, 12 xLCVP, 3 xLCPU |
| Capacity | 86 Officers 1,475 Enlisted |
| Crew | 56 Officers, 480 enlisted |
| Armament | 1 x5"/38 caliber dual-purpose gun mount, 1 x quad40mm gun mount, 4 x twin 40mm gun mounts, 10 x single20mm gun mounts |
| Notes | MCV Hull No. 680, hull type VC2-S-AP5 |
USSBollinger (APA-234) was aHaskell-classattack transport in service with theUnited States Navy from 1944 to 1947. She was scrapped in 1982.
Bollinger was named afterBollinger County, Missouri. She was launched 19 November 1944 byKaiser Shipbuilding ofVancouver, Washington, under aMaritime Commission contract; transferred to the Navy 8 December, and commissioned the next day.
Bollinger joined thePacific Fleet and arrived atPearl Harbor 19 February 1945. She departed Pearl Harbor two days later for the invasion ofIwo Jima where she provided logistic support (6–16 March).
After returning to Pearl Harbor 5 April, she made a voyage toSan Pedro, California, and back (22 April – 23 May), and then carried cargo and passengers toEniwetok,Ulithi,Okinawa,Saipan, andGuam before returning toSan Francisco on 29 July.
Leaving San Francisco 10 August she steamed to Eniwetok, Ulithi, and thePhilippines before landing occupation troops atWakayama,Honshū, Japan (12–26 September). She made one more voyage from the Philippines to Japan in October and then returned toSan Diego, arriving 15 November. The transport made another voyage across the Pacific (December 1945 – January 1946) to bring men home from the Philippines.
During June and July 1946 she carried passengers toBikini Atoll forOperation Crossroads, theatomic bomb tests designed to test the effect of nuclear weapons on warships. Over 200 warships participated in this operation, 75 of them as targets.
Bollinger then returned to cross-Pacific service and was decommissioned at San Francisco 1 April 1947. She was returned to the Maritime Commission the following day, and laid up in theNational Defense Reserve Fleet,Suisun Bay, California. While still in the Reserve Fleet, she was redesignated an amphibious transport LPA-234 on 1 January 1969. She was sold for scrapping by theMARAD on 19 February 1982.
Bollinger received onebattle star during World War II.
This article incorporates text from thepublic domainDictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be foundhere.
