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USS McCawley (APA-4)
USS ''McCawley'' (APA-4) was a ''McCawley''-class attack transport that served with the U.S. Navy during World War II. Named after Charles G. McCawley, eighth Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, she was the lead ship in her class.
The second ''McCawley'', formerly SS ''Santa Barbara'', was completed in 1928 by the Furness Shipbuilding Company of Haverton Hill-on-Tees, England; acquired by the Navy from Grace Lines 26 July 1940; renamed ''McCawley'' (AP-10) 29 July 1940; and commissioned 11 September 1940, Capt. H. D. McHenry in command. She was reclassified an attack transport, APA-4, on 1 February 1943.
==World War II==
On 19 February 1942, ''McCawley'' got underway for Iceland with troops embarked. She returned to New York 25 March and then steamed to Norfolk, Virginia en route a new assignment with the Pacific Fleet.
Transiting the Panama Canal 18 April, she discharged marine aviators at Pago Pago 8 May and continued on to Wellington, New Zealand. Joining Amphibious Force, South Pacific, she became the flagship for Rear Adm. R. K. Turner shortly before the first Allied counter invasion of the war, Guadalcanal.
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