USS Lloyd ( DE - 209 ) USS " Lloyd " ( DE - 209 / APD - 63 ) , a of the United States Navy , was named in honor of Ensign William R . Lloyd ( 1916 – 1942 ) , who was killed in action while serving aboard the on 6 May 1942 during the Battle of Corregidor . " Lloyd " was laid down on 26 July 1943 by the Charleston Navy Yard , launched on 23 November 1943 ; sponsored by Mrs . Ella Lee Lloyd , mother of Ensign Lloyd ; and commissioned on 11 February 1944 , Lieutenant Commander Peter N . Gammelgard in command . Service history . World War II , 1944 – 1946 . After shakedown off Bermuda , the new destroyer escort left Norfolk , Virginia on 12 May 1944 with 13 other destroyer escorts and a convoy of 100 transport ships bound for North Africa . The British relieved the escort ships at Bizerte , Tunisia , on 1 June ; nine days later " Lloyd " and her sister ships departed to escort another convoy on the westward passage home . While en route , " Lloyd " was reclassified APD - 63 on 5 July 1944 and ordered to report to the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 29 June for conversion to a " Charles Lawrence " - class high speed transport . Three months later , after conversion and shakedown , " Lloyd " steamed for the Pacific War zones , touched Bora Bora , Society Islands , on 20 October , and arrived Hollandia , New Guinea , on 4 November . Soon thereafter she became the permanent flagship for Transport Division 103 . Moving to Leyte on 23 November , for the next five months " Lloyd " transported invasion troops , as the Allies completed the Philippine liberation . In her first action on 7 December , the new transport ship landed troops at Ormoc on the western coast of Leyte . Ten days later he took part in the daring strike at Mindoro , the Japanese held island 500 miles northwest of Leyte . After Mindoro , she steamed via Lingayen to Hollandia to embark troops for the assault at Lingayen Gulf in northern Luzon . Departing New Guinea on 4 January 1945 , she landed her troops at Lingayen a week later . That afternoon , the transport ' s guns knocked out an enemy shore battery . The next day " Lloyd " departed and fought her way back to Leyte , splashing four enemy suicide planes during the three - day passage . During February the ship took part in the assaults on San Felipe and Subic Bay . On the 28th , she brought troops from Mindoro to help liberate the Island of Palawan , a vital stepping stone to Borneo . Another gateway to Borneo , Mindanao , ignored as the Navy leapfrogged to Leyte and Luzon , now had to be secured . Jumping off from Mindoro 8 March , two days later , " Lloyd " put troops ashore to liberate Zamboanga on the westernmost tip of Mindanao , then steamed to Leyte that evening . Following repairs and patrol duty off Leyte during April , the ship shifted operations to Morotai on 7 May to participate in the liberation of Borneo . From 28 May to 19 June , she assisted the amphibious forces landing at Brunei Bay on the western coast of Borneo . During early July , " Lloyd " twice ferried reinforcements from Morotai to the landings at Balikpapan on the eastern coast . In the last weeks of the war , the ship trained Army troops in amphibious warfare , then after V - J Day , transported occupation units from Okinawa to Korea . She departed Okinawa for Pearl Harbor on 26 November 1945 , en route to the east coast to join the Atlantic Reserve Fleet . She reached the Brooklyn Navy Yard on 2 January 1946 . Following a month in drydock , she steamed to Green Cove Springs , Florida , and decommissioned there on 1 July 1946 . Korean War , 1951 – 1953 . Under the demands of the Korean War , " Lloyd " recommissioned on 3 January 1951 , Lieutenant Commander A . A . Sullivan in command . After shakedown in Chesapeake Bay and availability at the Boston Naval Shipyard , she reported to the Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek , Virginia , on 26 September for local training duty . From April through October she operated with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean . Atlantic coast , 1953 – 1958 . From 1953 through 1957 the high speed transport continued to operate with the Marines out of Little Creek . During this period she often operated in the Caribbean and visited most of the ports along the eastern seaboard . Decommissioning and sale . " Lloyd " decommissioned on 18 February 1958 at Charleston , South Carolina , and rejoined the Atlantic Reserve Fleet . She was struck from the Navy List on 1 June 1966 and sold for scrap .