USS Callaway ( APA - 35 ) USS " Callaway " ( APA - 35 ) was a " Bayfield " class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II . Initially designated as a Navy Transport AP - 80 , " Callaway " was quickly redesignated as attack transport APA - 35 . The vessel was launched 10 October 1942 as " Sea Mink " by Western Pipe and Steel , San Francisco , California , under a Maritime Commission contract , acquired by the Navy 24 April 1943 , and commissioned the same day , Captain D . C . McNeil , USCG , in command . Operational history . Kwajalein . " Callaway " sailed from Norfolk 23 October 1943 to San Diego and trained with Marines to prepare for the first of her five assault landings . Joining TF 53 at Lahaina Roads , Hawaii , " Callaway " sailed for her baptism of fire at Kwajalein , where she landed troops in the assault that overwhelmed the defenders 31 January 1944 . Emirau and Saipan . After staging at Guadalcanal , " Callaway " proceeded combat loaded for the occupation of Emirau where her troops landed on 20 March 1944 . Transfers of troops and cargo in the Solomons and Ellices , and training at Pearl Harbor continued until 29 May , when " Callaway " got underway for her third assault invasion , the bloody inferno of Saipan , on 15 June . Laden with casualties , " Callaway " returned to Pearl Harbor to embark army troops for rehearsal landings at Guadalcanal . Soon coming Photos of the battle of Saipan from the War Photos of Keneth Geer Kane , PA Guadalcanal . " Callaway " set out for Guadalcanal 12 August . On 17 September , with battle - tried skill the transport launched her troops in the assault on Angaur in the Palaus , then returned to Manus and New Guinea to prepare for her assignment to the first reinforcement echelon for the northern Leyte landings . Leyte . Arriving in Leyte Gulf 22 October , " Callaway " landed her troops with the speed and ease born of experience , then retired through the raging Battle for Leyte Gulf for a month of operations supporting the Leyte campaign . These brought the transport back to Leyte 23 November , where she joined in driving off enemy air attacks as she disembarked her troops . Battle damaged at Lingayen . Preparations in New Guinea preceded in the Lingayen assault , in which " Callaway " distinguished herself as a member of the Blue Beach Attack Group . As the invasion force sailed north , desperate Japanese kamikaze attacks were launched in a determined effort to break up the landings , and on 8 January 1945 , a suicide plane broke through heavy antiaircraft fire to crash on the starboard wing of " Callaway " ' s bridge . Cool and skillful work against resulting fires kept material damage to a minimum , but 29 of Callaway ' s crew were killed and 22 wounded . Despite this loss , the attack transport carried out her mission the next day with her usual competence . Temporary repairs at Ulithi put her back in action by early February , when she carried Marine reinforcements from Guam to Iwo Jima , and wounded from that battle scarred island back to Guam , arriving 8 March . For the next 3 months , " Callaway " transported men and equipment between the bases and operating areas of the $ 3 , then embarked Japanese prisoners of war at Pearl Harbor , whom she carried to San Francisco , arriving 16 June 1945 . After hostilities . Following the Japanese surrender " Callaway " returned after an overhaul to Pearl Harbor 27 August , loaded occupation troops , and sailed to disembark them at Wakayama , Japan . Two transpacific voyages carrying homeward bound veterans ended with " Callaway " ' s own return to San Francisco 12 March 1946 . The transport then sailed to New York where she was decommissioned 10 May 1946 . For service in World War II , " Callaway " received six battle star s . Commercial service . " Callaway " was sold to American President Lines in March 1949 and renamed " President Harrison " , who converted her back to a cargo ship but with facilities for also carrying up to a dozen passengers . Her name was changed on 10 March 1966 to " President Fillmore " ( IV ) . On 24 April 1968 she was acquired by the Waterman Steamship Company and renamed " Hurricane . " Like many of her former " Bayfield " class sister ships , " Hurricane " was scrapped at Kaohsiung , Taiwan , in 1974