title: USS APL-45
text: # USS APL-45
  
  USS APL-45 is an APL-41-class barracks ship of the United States Navy.
  
  ## Construction and career
  
  The ship was laid down on 7 February 1945, by the Willamette Iron and Steel Works and launched on 12 May 1945. She was commissioned on 28 July 1945.
  
  She was decommissioned and put into the reserve fleet by January 1947.
  
  The ship undertook the CincPacFlt Berthing and Messing Program, in which she is berthed in Norfolk since at least the early 2000s. She is being used as a berthing and messing barge.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * American Campaign Medal
  * World War II Victory Medal
  