Windsor-class attack transport

The Windsor class was a group of nine United States Navy attack transports that served in the Pacific during the Second World War. Like other attack transports they carried troops and equipment to hostile shores for amphibious landings, using assault boats carried on board, and they were armed with antiaircraft guns to protect their cargo of troops. The class was built on three variants of the Maritime Commission Type C3 cargo hull, and the official records describe the subtypes inconsistently. Seven ships came from Bethlehem Steel at Sparrows Point in Maryland, while the last two, Griggs and Grundy, were built by Ingalls Shipbuilding at Pascagoula, Mississippi, so only a part of the class belongs to this yard. Windsor and Leedstown entered service in mid-1943 and saw the most action, and the rest arrived too late for combat. Most ships were sold into merchant service after 1946 and scrapped in the 1970s.