USS Montauk (LSV-6)

USS Montauk underway off New York soon after completion of her LSV conversion in October 1944
History
United States
Name	USS Montauk
Builder	Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Laid down	14 April 1942, as AN-2 (Net laying ship)
Launched	14 April 1943
Commissioned	6 October 1944
Decommissioned	July 1947
Renamed	USS Galilea, 1 October 1946
Reclassified	AP-161 (Transport), 2 August 1943 LSV-6 (Landing Ship Vehicle), 21 April 1944 AKN-6 (Net Cargo Ship), 1 October 1946
Stricken	1 September 1961
Honours and awards	1 battle star (World War II)
Fate	Sold for scrapping, June 1972
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 × single 5"/38 caliber gun mount (aft) 4 × twin 40 mm guns 20 × single 20 mm guns

USS Montauk (LSV-6/AN-2/AP-161/AKN-6) was an Osage-class vehicle landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was named after USS Montauk (1862) and was the fourth U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.

Originally laid down under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1) as netlayer AN-2 on 14 April 1942 by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation of Pascagoula, Mississippi; launched 14 April 1943; sponsored by Mrs. G. C. Whiting; reclassified AP-161 2 August 1943; reclassified LSV-6 21 April 1944; and commissioned 6 October 1944 at Brooklyn, New York.