Built by the Western Pipe and Steel Company, San Pedro, California, the ship was commissioned on 2 September 1944.

LSM-236 was recommissioned on 8 September 1950 for service in the Korean War, and decommissioned on 17 October 1955 at Astoria, Oregon.

Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group, Astoria, she was struck from the Naval Register, and transferred to the Philippines on 15 September 1960, serving as RPS Batanes (L-65).

Batanes ran aground and declared a total loss in June 1971, and was scrapped in 1972.

LSM-236 earned one battle star for Korean War service.