USS Lamar (PCE-899)/USCGC Lamar (WTR-899) was a PCE-842-class patrol craft acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II for the task of patrolling assigned ocean areas or protecting larger ships in convoy.

USS Lamar (APA-47) was a Bayfield-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. She was sold into commercial service in 1948 and was scrapped in 1971.

USS Lamar (APA-47) underway while a part of the Guam amphibious invasion force, July 1944. Photo taken from USS Ringgold (DD-500) , Dwight Spayth collection. John Chiquoine

Jul 29, 2015 · For more than 13 years she provided valuable service in training and maintaining the fighting excellence of officers and men of the Naval Reserve. Renamed Lamar (PCE-899) on 15 February 1956, she...

Commissioned USS PCE-899, 17 March 1945; Decommissioned 16 December 1949 at Philadelphia, PA and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned 13 December 1950 at Milwaukee, WI and assigned as a Naval Reserve training vessel; Named Lamar, 15 February 1956; Decommissioned 28 May 1964 at Philadelphia and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet

USS Lamar may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Lamar (APA-47), an attack transport commissioned on 6 April 1944 and decommissioned on 7 March 1946; USS Lamar (PCE-899), a patrol craft commissioned on 17 March 1945 and transferred to the United States Coast Guard on 29 July 1964

She decommissioned 25 May and entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. In June 1964 her name was struck from the Naval Register and transferred to the Coast Guard 29 July 1964 and was commissioned in that service as USCGC Lamar (WTR--899) serving in this capacity into 1969.

USS Lamar (PCE-899)/USCGC Lamar (WTR-899) was a PCE-842-class patrol craft acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II for the task of patrolling assigned ocean areas or protecting larger ships in convoy.

USS Lamar (APA-47) was a Bayfield-class attack transport acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II for the task of mounting amphibious invasions on hostile shores. Lamar (AP-92) was reclassified APA-47 on 1 February 1943; laid down 31 March 1943 by …

The USS Lamar (APA-47) was a Bayfield-class attack transport laid down on March 31, 1943, and launched on August 28, the same year. It was commissioned on April 6, 1944, under Capt. Bruce K. Culver’s command with the hull number APA-47 and served in the US Navy for 2 years until it was decommissioned on March 7, 1946.