USS Greenbrier River (LSM(R)-507)

"LSM(R)-507" was laid down 31 March 1945 by the Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston, Texas and launched on 28 April 1945. She was commissioned by the United States Navy on 22 June 1945, with Lieutenant Alvin G. Walser in command.

Departing Houston 27 June, "LSM(R)-507" steamed via Galveston, Texas to Charleston, South Carolina, where she arrived 7 July. From 28 to 30 July she sailed to Little Creek, Virginia, for training in Chesapeake Bay and along the Virginia coast. Assigned to LSMR Squadron 4, she departed Little Creek 4 October for the Great Lakes. She touched at Halifax, Quebec, and Montreal and arrived at Rochester, New York, 16 October. During the next 3 weeks she sailed to Detroit and Chicago before returning to Rochester 1 November, and then to Little Creek 17 November.

During the next 2 months "LSM(R)-507" continued operations out of Little Creek. She departed 29 January 1946, for operations off San Juan, Puerto Rico, and later out of Guantanamo Bay. She returned to Little Creek 24 March.

Following duty out of Norfolk, Virginia and Baltimore, Maryland, "LSM(R)-507" departed Little Creek for the West Coast of the United States 18 October, arriving San Diego, California on 20 November. Assigned to LSMR Squadron 3, she operated out of San Diego; decommissioned there 5 February 1947 and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet. While berthed at San Diego, she was named "Greenbrier River" on 1 October 1955, after the Greenbrier River (a tributary of the New River). Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 October 1958.

References

*DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/g8/greenbrier_river.htm