USS Triana (IX-223), an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rodrigo de Triana, the discoverer of the Americas. Her keel was laid down on 27 December 1943 under Maritime Commission contract (MCE hull 2559) as Elinor Wylie (T. EC2S-C1) at Los Angeles, California, by the California Shipbuilding Corporation for the McCormick Steamship Lines. She was launched on 24 January 1944 sponsored by Mrs. William O'Brien, renamed Triana on 21 May 1945, acquired by the Navy from the War Shipping Administration on a "bare-boat" basis on 24 May 1945, and commissioned at Pearl Harbor the same day with Lieutenant Wyman W. Hodgkins, USNR, in command.