High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Callaway (APA-35) was a Bayfield class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II. Initially designated as a Navy Transport AP-80, Callaway was quickly redesignated as attack transport APA-35. The vessel was launched 10 October 1942 as Sea Mink by Western Pipe and Steel, San Francisco, California, under a Maritime Commission contract, acquired by the Navy 24 April 1943, and commissioned the same day, Captain D. C. McNeil, USCG, in command.