USS Okala, a 4100-ton Laysan Island class salvage craft tender, was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana. Begun as the tank landing ship LST-1099, she was redesignated ARS(T)-2 and renamed Okala in December 1944, during the early stages of construction. Placed in reduced commission in mid June 1945, for transit down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, she entered full commission late in that month. In the summer of 1945 Okala passed through the Panama Canal, en route to the western Pacific, arriving in late September 1945. She served in Far Eastern waters until March 1946, then proceeded to the U.S. West Coast, where she was decommissioned in August. Later in 1946 Okala was turned over to the U.S. Maritime Commission for sale.
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Page made 28 August 2006