USS Monitor (LSV-5)

Monitor in 1945
History
United States
Name	USS Monitor
Namesake	USS Monitor
Builder	Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Laid down	21 October 1941, as AN-1 (Net laying ship)
Launched	29 January 1943
Commissioned	14 June 1944
Decommissioned	22 May 1947
Out of service	1961
Reclassified	AP-160 (Transport), 2 August 1943 LSV-5 (Landing Ship Vehicle), 21 April 1944 MCS-5 (Mine Countermeasures Support Ship), 18 October 1956
Stricken	1 September 1961
Honours and awards	4 battle stars (World War II)
Fate	Scrapped, 1961
General characteristics
Class and type	Osage-class vehicle landing ship
Displacement	4,626 long tons (4,700 t) light 9,040 long tons (9,185 t) full
Length	458 ft (140 m)
Beam	60 ft 2 in (18.34 m)
Draft	20 ft (6.1 m)
Propulsion	4 × Combustion Engineering 2-drum boilers 2 × General Electric geared turbines 2 shafts
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Capacity	19 × LVTs or 29 DUKWs
Troops	122 officers, 1236 enlisted men
Complement	458 officers and enlisted men
Armament	2 × single 5-inch/38-caliber gun mounts (forward) 1 × twin 5"/38 caliber gun mount (aft) 4 × twin 40 mm guns 20 × single 20 mm guns

USS Monitor (LSV-5/AN-1/AP-160/MCS-5) was an Osage-class vehicle landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was named after the original USS Monitor (the first ironclad warship commissioned by the USN and the first U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name), and was the second U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.

Laid down on 21 October 1941 as netlayer AN-1 by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation of Pascagoula, Mississippi and launched on 29 January 1943; sponsored by Mrs. John A. Terhune. She was redesignated AP-160 on 2 August 1943, and first commissioned on 18 March 1944. Due to delays in construction, the ship was transferred under her own power to Todd Shipyards, Brooklyn, New York for completion on 2 April. Redesignated as a Landing Ship, Vehicle, on 21 April 1944, USS Monitor (LSV-5) was commissioned for service on 14 June 1944.