USS Dutchess

USS Dutchess (APA-98) was a Windsor-class attack transport that served with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946.

She reached Pearl Harbor 19 March for training exercises, then sailed by way of Eniwetok to Okinawa where she landed reinforcements and combat cargo on 1 May.

Dutchess sailed from Portland, Oregon, 13 June 1945 with troops for Pearl Harbor, then transported men of the IXth Corps, U.S. Army, to San Pedro, Leyte, arriving 15 July.

She was later resold to C. Y. Tung of Hong Kong, reflagged in the Republic of China, and renamed Oriental Jade.

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