The USS Gallatin (APA-169) was a Haskell-class attack transport ship laid down on August 13, 1944, at Oregon Shipbuilding Corp., Portland. The ship was launched on October 17, the same year. It was commissioned on November 15, 1944, under CDR. Frank S. Dowd’s command, with the hull number APA-169 and it served the US Navy for 2 years until it was decommissioned on April 23, 1946. During its activity, the ship carried a complement of 536 people on board and had the main missions in the Asiatic Pacific Theater during World War II. Most of the asbestos exposure aboard this ship occurred in engineering spaces and boiler rooms. After the decommissioning, the ship was struck from the Naval Register on May 08, 1946. The ship was redesignated as Amphibious Transport (LKA-169) and was finally sold for scrapping in September 1983.
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