USS LCI(L)-191, a 246-ton landing craft, infantry, was built at Port Newark, New Jersey. Commissioned in early February 1943, she crossed the Atlantic to the Mediterranean a few months later and in July participated in the invasion of Sicily. During the next thirteen months LCI(L)-191 took part in amphibious assaults on Salerno and Anzio, Italy, the island of Elba and the French southern shore. She subsequently performed logistics and general transport service until leaving the Mediterranean in late June 1945 to return to the United States. In August she was briefly redesignated LCI(G)-191 in anticipation of conversion to a gunboat, but this work was cancelled when World War II ended. Based at Little Creek, Virginia, in late 1945 and early 1946, LCI(L)-191 went to Staten Island, New York, in March and was decommissioned there in mid-April 1946. She was transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal in January 1948. Sold to civilian owners, she became a sightseeing craft in the New York City area and is still operating there under the name Circle Line VII.