USS Saugus (LSV-4)

History
United States
Name	USS Saugus
Builder	Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Laid down	27 July 1942, as AN-4 (Net laying ship)
Launched	4 September 1943
Commissioned	22 February 1945
Decommissioned	24 March 1947
Reclassified	AP-109 (Transport), 1 May 1943 LSV-4 (Landing Ship Vehicle), 21 April 1944 MCS-4 (Mine Countermeasures Support Ship), 18 October 1956
Stricken	1 July 1961
Fate	Sold for scrapping, 13 July 1976
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"/38 caliber gun mounts (forward) 1 × twin 5"/38 caliber gun mount (aft) 4 × twin 40 mm guns 20 × single 20 mm guns

USS Saugus (AN-4/AP-109/LSV-4/MCS-4) was an Osage-class vehicle landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named after USS Saugus (1863), which was in turn named for Saugus, Massachusetts, she was the second of three U.S. Naval vessels to bear the name.

Laid down on 27 July 1942 by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation of Pascagoula, Mississippi as netlayer AN-4; reclassified AP-109 on 1 May 1943; launched on 4 September 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Rivers J. Carstarphen; reclassified LSV-4 on 21 April 1944; completed by the Tampa Shipbuilding Company of Tampa, Florida; and commissioned on 22 February 1945.