USS Renville (APA-227)

USS Renville (APA-227) at anchor off the coast of South Vietnam, 1966
History
United States
Name:	USS Renville (APA-227)
Builder:	Kaiser Shipbuilding
Laid down:	19 August 1944
Launched:	25 October 1944
Sponsored by:	Mrs Orpha Penderville
Commissioned:	15 November 1944
Decommissioned:	23 April 1968
Reclassified:	LPA-227, 1 January 1969
Struck:	1 September 1976
Honours and awards:	One battle star for World War II, two for the Korean War, and four for the Vietnam War
Fate:	Disposed of 19 February 1982, fate unknown
General characteristics
Class and type:	Haskell-class attack transport
Tonnage:	150,000 cu. ft, 2,900 tons
Displacement:	6,873 tons (lt), 14,837 t. (fl)
Length:	455 ft
Beam:	62 ft
Draft:	24 ft
Propulsion:	1 x Westinghouse geared turbine, 2 x Combustion Engineering header-type boilers, 1 x propeller, designed shaft horsepower 8,500
Speed:	18 knots
Boats & landing craft carried:	2 x LCM, 12 x LCVP, 3 x LCPU
Capacity:	86 Officers 1,475 Enlisted
Crew:	56 Officers, 480 enlisted
Armament:	1 x 5"/38 caliber dual-purpose gun mount, 1 x quad 40mm gun mount, 4 x twin 40 mm gun mounts, 10 x single 20mm gun mounts
Notes:	MCV Hull No. 673, hull type VC2-S-AP5

USS Renville (APA-227) was a Haskell-class attack transport that saw service with the US Navy in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

Renville was named after counties in Minnesota and North Dakota. She was laid down 19 August 1944 as MCV hull 673 by Kaiser Shipbuilding of Vancouver, Washington, launched 25 October 1944, and commissioned 15 November 1944, Capt. William W. Ball in command.

Following shakedown out of San Diego, Renville sailed in January 1945 for Guadalcanal, where in March she embarked 1,620 combat-ready troops for the invasion of Okinawa.

Renville's assault boats transported the troops to the beach at Okinawa 1 April. Departing on the 5th, she steamed via Saipan and Pearl Harbor to San Francisco. During the remainder of the war, she transported troops and supplies between various Pacific Islands and the United States.

In September, she carried 1,436 Allied prisoners of war from Japan to Manila. In 1946 she returned additional troops to the United States, and then operated along the Pacific coast.

Operating in the western Pacific, Renville was ordered to Jakarta, Indonesia, in December 1947. Renville became Headquarters ship for the U.N. Truce Commission that negotiated settlement terms between Dutch military forces and Indonesian nationalists. Dutch Indonesian representatives began meeting aboard Renville in the harbor at Jakarta on 8 December 1947. This resulted in the Renville agreement of 17 January 1948. After operating off the U.S. West Coast from May 1948 to January 1949, she voyaged to China later in January, and returned from Tsingtao, China 8 February. She arrived in San Diego, California 26 February 1949.