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USNS Sargent Charles E. Mower (T-AP-186)
ex
 USAT Sargent Charles E. Mower (1946 - 1950)
 USS Tryon (APH-1) (1942 - 1946)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Delta - Charlie - Juliet
 NDCJ
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (4)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal
Tryon Class Evacuation Transport
  • Laid down, 26 March 1941, as SS Alcoa Courier, a Maritime Commission type (C2-S1-A1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 175), at Moore Dry Dock Co., Oakland, CA.
  • Launched, 21 October 1941
  • Renamed Comfort in June 1942
  • Renamed Tryon, 13 August 1942
  • Acquired by the Navy, 29 September 1942
  • Commissioned USS Tryon (APH-1), 30 September 1942, CDR. Alfred J. Byrholdt in command
  • During World War II USS Tryon was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Tinian capture and occupation, 24 to 31 July 1944 Leyte operation
    Leyte landings, 30 to 31 October 1944
    Western Caroline Islands operation
    Capture and occupation of southern Palau Islands, Peleliu,
    15 to 20 September 1944 and
    28 September to 4 October 1944     		Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landings, San Fabian, 11 to 17 January 1945

  • Decommissioned, 20 March 1946, at Seattle, WA.
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission and struck from the Naval Register, 17 April 1946
  • Acquired by the US Army Transportation Service, 17 July 1946
  • Converted to a troop transport at Todd Shipyard, Seattle, WA.
  • Commissioned, 25 August 1947, as USAT Sargent Charles E. Mower
  • Transferred to the Navy, 1 March 1950
  • Placed in service as with the Military Sealift Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS Sargent Charles E. Mower (T-AP-186)
  • Placed out of service, 16 June 1954
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown.
  • USS Tryon (APH-1) received four battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 7,100 t.(lt) 9,920 t.(fl)
    Length 450' 2"
    Beam 62'
    Draft 25' 7"(max)
    Speed 18 kts.
    Complement 455
    Troop Accommodations 1,274
    Armament
    one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    twelve single 40mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion steam turbine, single shaft, 8,500 hp
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    USS Tryon (APH-1)
    Tr yon 70k Broadside view of USS Tryon (APH-1) off San Francisco, 10 October 1942.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 6323-10-42, 10/10/42.    		 Darryl Baker
    Tr yon 59k USS Tryon (APH-1) underway, date and location unknown, circa October 1942. Note the characteristic small streamlined, funnel and solarium structure atop her deck house. She is still carrying merchant-type lifeboats rather than landing craft.
    US Navy photo from "US Amphibious Ships and Craft", by Norman Friedman.    		 Robert Hurst
    Tryon 92k USS Tryon (APH-1) underway in October 1943. Her funnel has been reconfigured and enlarged following wind tunnel tests to keep smoke off the after decks. She has also received a radar mast but does not yet have Welin davits.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-223424, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. Photo from "US Amphibious Ships and Craft", by Norman Friedman.    		 Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
    Tr yon 67k USS Tryon (APH-1) at anchor off San Francisco, 18 May 1945, after an overhaul in which she received a new radar mast, Welin davits, and a small cap on her funnel, which evidently was still not satisfactory. At this time all three ships probably had their tall raked masts shortened above the crosstrees as shown here.
    US Navy photo # 19-N-95123, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 Robert Hurst
    Tr yon 52k USS Tryon (APH-1) at anchor off San Francisco, 18 May 1945. She still shows the exotic raked lines left over from her liner design. Her small funnel projects from a streamlined structure, also left over form the liner design, used as a solarium. Unlike APAs, she did not carry LCMs.
    US Navy photo.    		 Robert Hurst
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