Originally laid down as LST-825 on 2 October 1944 by the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company, Evansville, Indiana; launched 11 November; sponsored by Mrs. John Spindler; commissioned at New Orleans on 8 December.

The momentous Pacific campaign was in full swing at Okinawa when LST-825 reached that rocky Japanese fortress via Pearl Harbor, Guam, Eniwetok, and Ulithi on 21 April to discharge troop reinforcements and cargo.

On the 16th the landing ship embarked 514 enlisted men at Guam and sailed for the United States via Pearl Harbor as part of the Operation Magic Carpet fleet bringing home veterans, arriving San Francisco on 22 December.

After a few months of tactical operations along the West Coast, LST-825 decommissioned at Swan Island in Portland, Oregon, and joined the Pacific Reserve Fleet on 22 May 1946.

After training out of San Diego, LST-825 entered Pearl Harbor on 8 April 1951 where she transported passengers and cargo among the Hawaiian Islands until returning stateside on 1 July.

Spring and early summer were spent in operations along the Japanese and Korean coast as well as cargo duty between Eniwetok and Bikini Atoll.NOTE above statements not exact!

Part of this task force from 26 August to 5 October 1954, LST-825 made five trips from the Northern capital, Haiphong, to southern ports with Vietnamese refugees and French troops and equipment.

In May 1965 the Dominican Republic crisis erupted and Hickman County sailed from Norfolk, Virginia on 8 May laden with supplies for the logistical support of the U.S. Armed Forces keeping the peace in that country.

On 23 February 1966 the ship transited the Panama Canal, arriving at Pearl Harbor on 19 March and departed Kāne'ohe Bay, Oahu on 4 April 1966 for the Western Pacific.

During the Vietnam War Hickman County participated in the following campaigns: Decommissioned (date unknown), she was transferred to the Philippines on 26 November 1969, and the ship was renamed as RPS Cagayan (LT-97).