page_title: Haskell-class attack transport
section_title: Fate
hierarchical_section_title: Haskell-class attack transport / Fate
caption_attribution_description: English: USS&#160;Rutland&#160;(APA-192) lowering a LCM off Iwo Jima.
context_page_description: Haskell-class attack transports were amphibious assault ships of the United States Navy created in 1944. They were designed to transport 1,500 troops and their combat equipment, and land them on hostile shores with the ships' integral landing craft.
  The Haskells were very active in the World War II Pacific Theater of Operations, landing Marines and Army troops and transporting casualties at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Ships of the class were among the first Allied ships to enter Tokyo Bay at the end of World War II, landing the first occupation troops at Yokosuka. After the end of World War II, most participated in Operation Magic Carpet, the massive sealift of US personnel back to the United States. A few of the Haskell class were reactivated for the Korean War, with some staying in service into the Vietnam War.
  The Haskell class, Maritime Commission standard type VC2-S-AP5, is a sub‑type of the World War II Victory ship design. 117 were launched in 1944 and 1945, with 14 more being finished as another VC2 type or canceled. Built by the War Shipping Administration under the Emergency Shipbuilding program.
context_section_description: Most of the Haskell-class ships were mothballed in 1946, with only a few remaining in service.  Many of the Haskell class were scrapped in 1973–75.  A few were converted into Missile Range Instrumentation Ships.
  USS Gage, the last remaining ship in the Haskell configuration, was scrapped in 2009 at ESCO Marine, in Brownsville, Tx.
  USS Sherburne, which was converted and renamed USS Range Sentinel, lasted until she was scrapped in 2012.
  SS Rutland Victory was sold to a private company and sank on February 13, 1976 600 miles East of Tokyo, Japan.
caption: USS Rutland lowering an LCM off Iwo Jima in 1945
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