USS Aurelia (AKA-23) was an Artemis-class attack cargo ship in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946.

In early November 1944, the attack cargo ship got underway for shakedown training in the Chesapeake Bay.

She arrived at Norfolk, Va., on the 23d to embark troops and load cargo, sailed on the 28th for Hawaii – via the Panama Canal – and reached Pearl Harbor on 17 December.

She received on board Marine Corps personnel for passage back to the United States and delivered them to San Francisco on 13 November.

She stood out to sea on the 29th for her last round-trip voyage to the Orient, embarked another contingent of veterans in Japan, and arrived back in San Francisco on 16 January 1946.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.