USS Wayne

History
United States
Name	USS Wayne (APA-54)
Namesake	Wayne County, Georgia Wayne County, Illinois Wayne County, Indiana Wayne County, Iowa Wayne County, Kentucky Wayne County, Michigan Wayne County, Mississippi Wayne County, Missouri Wayne County, Nebraska Wayne County, New York Wayne County, North Carolina Wayne County, Ohio Wayne County, Pennsylvania Wayne County, Tennessee Wayne County, Utah Wayne County, West Virginia
Builder	Gulf Shipbuilding
Laid down	20 April 1942
Launched	6 December 1942
Sponsored by	Mrs. N. G. Nicolson
Acquired	30 April 1943
Commissioned	27 August 1943
Decommissioned	16 March 1946
Reclassified	AP-99 to APA-54, 1 February 1943
Stricken	17 April 1946
Identification	IMO number: 5003966
Honours and awards	Seven battle stars for World War II service
Fate	Scrapped, May 1977
General characteristics
Class and type	Sumter-class attack transport
Displacement	13,910 tons (fl)
Length	468 ft 8 in
Beam	63 ft
Draft	23 ft 3 in (limiting)
Propulsion	1 × General Electric geared drive turbine, 2 Babcock & Wilcox header-type boilers, 1 propeller, designed shaft horsepower 6,000
Speed	16.5 knots
Capacity	Troops: Officers 93, Enlisted 1,340 Cargo: 170,000 cu ft, 1,300 tons
Complement	Officers 57, Enlisted 478
Armament	2 × 5 in (130 mm) dual-purpose gun mounts 4 × twin 40 mm gun mounts (originally 8 × 1.1"/75 caliber guns) 10 × single 20 mm gun mounts
Notes	MCV Hull No. 476, hull type C2-S-E1

USS Wayne (APA-54) was a Sumter-class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II.

Wayne was originally laid down as a type C2-S-E1 ship under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 476), yard hull 7 (U.S. Official Number 251508) on 20 April 1942 as Afoundria at Chickasaw, Alabama, by the Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation.^{[1][note 1]} The ship was renamed Wayne and classified as a transport, AP-99, on 26 October 1942; launched on 6 December 1942; sponsored by Mrs. N. G. Nicolson; reclassified an attack transport, APA-54, on 1 February 1943; acquired by the Navy on 30 April 1943; delivered to the Navy the following day, 1 May 1943, and simultaneously placed in commission "in ordinary."

Taken to the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Key Highway Yard, Baltimore, Maryland, Wayne was converted for naval service. Decommissioned on 11 May 1943 for the duration of the conversion work, Wayne (APA-54) was recommissioned at Baltimore on 27 August 1943.

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