Ships built in South Carolina

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 98. Chapters: USS Abnaki, USS Stevens, USS Beatty, USS Sterett, USS Apache, USS Bryant, USS Arikara, USS Stanly, USS William T. Powell, USS John Adams, USS Hobson, USS Tulsa, USS Atakapa, USS James E. Craig, USS LST-356, USS Brock, USS Papago, USS Kiowa, USS Tillman, USS Corry, USS Salinan, USS Cocopa, USS Skylark, USS Roe, USS Manning, USS Arapaho, USS Twiggs, USS Wando, USS Liddle, USS William M. Hobby, USS Grayson, USS Swanson, USS Albert W. Grant, USS Kephart, United States lightship Chesapeake, USS Tidewater, USS LSM(R)-196, USS Planter, USS Izard, USS Pringle, USS Register, USS Hayter, USS Hilary P. Jones, USS Lloyd, USS Oceanside, USS Thomason, USS Kinzer, USS Kodiak, USS LSM(R)-195, USS Newman, USS Clarion River-409), USS Cofer, USS Neuendorf, USS Cahuilla, USS Penguin, USS John Q. Roberts, USS Alsea, CSS David, USS Paul Hamilton, USS Utina, USS Achomawi, USS Hubbard, USS Truxtun, USS Burns, USS Luiseno, USS Eichenberger, CSS Chicora, USS Bluebird, USS Carib, USS Charleston, USS Bell, USS Arthur L. Bristol, USS Otter, USS Ray K. Edwards, USS Asheville, USS Bannock, USS Ingraham, USS Hunting, USS Jordan, USS LSM-135, USS Chippewa, USS Upham, CSS Palmetto State, USS Beaufort, USS Kaloli, USS LST-353, USS Osceola, USS Carolina, USS LSM-217, CSS Columbia, USS Pirate, USS LSM-149, CSS Pedee, USS Vogelgesang, USS Catbird, USS Curlew, USS LSM-397, USS LST-357, CSS Charleston, USS Wave, USS Cheyenne, United States lightship LV-117. Excerpt: USS Abnaki (ATF-96) was the lead ship of the Abnaki-class of fleet ocean tugs in the service of the United States Navy, named after the Abenaki tribe of Native Americans. She was laid down on 28 November 1942 at Charleston, South Carolina by Charleston Shipbuilding & Drydock, launched on 22 April 1943, sponsored by Mrs. James Mayon Jones, and commissioned at the Charleston Navy Yard on 25 November 1943 with Lt. Dewey Walley in command. The fleet ocean tug completed shakedown in Chesapeake Bay on 10 December and began operating with the Atlantic Fleet. She conducted towing operations up and down the eastern seaboard of the United States until the spring of 1944. On 28 May of that year, she got underway from Norfolk, Virginia, bound for Oran, Algeria. On 4 June, however, while in the vicinity of the Azores, Abnaki received orders to rendezvous with Captain Daniel V. Gallery's Task Group (TG) 22.3 built around USS Guadalcanal. That task group had just succeeded in capturing the German submarine U-505, and Abnaki was to tow her to Bermuda. She arrived there with the prize on 19 June and remained 10 days before shaping a course for New York. The tug spent the early days of July in New York and stood out to sea on the 11th, towing barges in an Oran-bound convoy. She returned to New York on 19 August having towed the French warship Senegalaise from Oran. From 19 September to 5 December 1944, Abnaki made a round-trip voyage to Britain. During that mission, she towed barges and tank landing ships. On the return leg of that voyage, the ship made stops at Reykjavík, Iceland; and NS Argentia, Newfoundland; before returning to Norfolk. During January and February 1945, she again steamed to Oran and returned to Norfolk for repairs in preparation for duty with the Pacific Fleet. On 24 April 1945, Abnaki passed between Capes Henry and Charles on her way to her new assignment. She arrived in the Panama Canal Zone on 9 May, transited the canal, and continued her voyage from Balboa, P