Built under yard No 4362 as a passenger ship by the, Bethlehem Steel Corp, Sparrow Point, Md, for the Mississippi Shipping Co.
04 October 1941 keel laid down.
24 March 1942 launched under the name DEL URUGUAY, sponsored by Mrs. C.W. Flesher.
August 1942 taken over by the US Navy and completed as a transport under the name CHARLES CARROLL (AP-58). Named after a signer of the American Declaration of Independence (1737-1832)
Tonnage 7.191 gross, 4.380 net., dim. 491 x 56.6 x 25.8ft. (draught).
Powered by General Electric geared turbines, 7.800 hp., speed 16 knots.
Accommodation for 67 officers and 1.255 enlisted.
Armament 4 – 3 inch, 2 – 40mm AA. and 18 - 20mm AA guns.
Crew58 officers and 554 enlisted.
13 August 1942 commissioned under command of Comdr. H. Beisemeier.
She was EC2-S-C1 type.
After commissioned assigned for the European Theatre of War.
24 October 1942 she sailed from Norfolk, Va. In the Centre Attack Group for the landings in North Africa, and on 8 November arrived off Fedhala (near Casablanca), French Morocco, to begin the difficult landing of soldiers and their equipment over a beach whose narrow entrance was confined by rocky entrances. Her untrained boat crews completed their part in the landing successfully, and on 15 November, CHARLES CARROLL got underway for Norfolk, which she reached 26 November. After replenishment, she sailed 27 December, bound for the Pacific, but while approaching the Panama Canal Zone, struck a mine and had to put into Balboa for repairs.
On 1 February 1943, she was reclassified APA-28 and in March 1943 returned to Chesapeake Bay for training operations. On 8 June, the attack transport sailed for action once more.
Arriving at Oran 22 June 1943, CHARLES CARROLL rehearsed, then loaded for the assault on Sicily, and on 10 July, began putting troops ashore through the heavy surf of the Scoglitti beaches. Remaining off Sicily for 6 days, the attack transport repeatedly fired on attacking planes in the furious German air attacks on the assault forces. After ferrying reinforcements from North Africa she returned to Oran 18 August to prepare for the invasion of Italy itself, for which she sailed 5 September.
Operating with the Southern Attack Force, CHARLES CARROLL began landing the initial attack waves at Salerno 9 September, where a strong defense of the beach called for, and received skill and determination from the boat crews. As resistance stiffened, CHARLES CARROLL joined in bringing fresh troops into action, continuing support until 17 November. After short overhaul in Norfolk from 2 January till 11 February 1944, on 22 February she arrived in British waters to begin her share of the long and intricate preparations for the return to the continent.
On 5 June 1944, CHARLES CARROLL left England an headed for formidably protected Omaha Beach with the initial landing force. Overcoming the difficult obstacles placed by the Germans there, her boat crews successfully landed troops of the 29th Division under enemy fire, and all through that historic 6 June plied back and forth, landing additional troops and equipment, and evacuating casualties.
CHARLES CARROLL sailed for England that evening.
After training off Scotland and in Italian waters, CHARLES CARROLL sailed from Naples 13 August 1944 for the invasion of southern France, assigned to the thoroughly mined, well-defended beaches of Saint Raphael, where she got her troops ashore without mishap on 15 August. Until October, she continued to support the advance of troops in southern France with voyages to Marseilles from Naples and Oran with French, British and American troops, and Italian labour battalions.
CHARLES CARROLL returned to Norfolk 8 November 1944 for overhaul and to prepare for Pacific deployment. The veteran of five major assaults reached Espiritu Santo, Noumea, 19 January 1945.
On 27 March 1945, she sailed from Ulithi in the Northern Attack Force for Okinawa, carrying elements of the 1st Marines to the Hagushi beaches. She landed her troops 1 April in the deceptively quit opening hours of this later fierce campaign, and remained to support the rapid advance of the Mariners across the island for 4 days, firing in the many kamikaze attacks which began to sketch the bloody pattern of this operation. She returned by way of Saipan to Pearl Harbor, where she embarked passengers for San Francisco, arriving 22 August.
After the war, CHARLES CARROLL made five voyages from the west coast to the Philippines and the Far East, carrying occupation troops west-bound and returning servicemen east-bound. Ports of call included Manila, Nagoya, Sasebo and Yokosuka, Japan, Tientsin, Shanghai, Tsingtao, and Taku, China and Guam.
27 December 1946 decommissioned at San Francisco, and placed in reserve at Suisun Bay, California.
29 October 1958 she was transferred to the Maritime Commission, and laid up in the Hudson River.
1971 Scrapped at Kearny NJ (other source gives, disposed of by MARAD sale, 1 April 1977.)
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Source: copied from http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/03/03028.htm http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c6/ch ... arroll.htm and other web-sites.