High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Barrow (APA-61) was a Gilliam class attack transport serving in the United States Navy during World War II. The unnamed attack transport APA-61 was laid down on January 28, 1944 at Wilmington, California, by the Consolidated Steel Corporation, under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1854); named for Barrow County, Georgia, on March 11, 1944; launched on May 11, 1944; accepted by the Navy on September 27, 1944; and commissioned on September 28, 1944 at San Pedro, California, Lieutenant Commander Herman Jorgensen, USNR, in command. She was named for a county in north central Georgia