USS Callaway (APA-35)

USS Callaway (APA-35)

2 x single 5 inch/38 cal. dual purpose gun mounts, one fore and one aft.
2 x twin 40mm AA gun mounts forward, port and starboard.
2 x single 40 mm AA gun mounts.

USS Callaway (APA-35) was a Bayfield class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II.

Initially designated as a Navy Transport AP-80, Callaway was quickly redesignated as attack transport APA-35. The vessel was launched 10 October 1942 as Sea Mink by Western Pipe and Steel, San Francisco, California, under a Maritime Commission contract, acquired by the Navy 24 April 1943, and commissioned the same day, Captain D. C. McNeil, USCG, in command.