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AKA-101 Ottawa

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Echo - Bravo - Bravo
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Tolland Class Attack Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down, 5 October 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-AJ3) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1698) at North Carolina Shipbuilding, Wilmington, N.C.
  • Launched, 29 November 1944
  • Commissioned USS Ottawa (AKA-101), 8 February 1945, LCDR. Jackson Mizell, USNR, in command
  • During World War II Ottawa was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater
  • Following World War II Ottawa performed occupation duty in the Far East
  • Decommissioned, 10 January 1947, at Norfolk, VA.
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission, 28 January 1947
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 14 March 1947
  • Sold by the Maritime Commission to Luckenbach Steamship Lines, Inc., renamed SS Andrea F. Luckenbach
  • Final Disposition, lost due to stranding three miles off Kohala Point, Kauai, Territory of Hawaii, 11 March 1951
    Specifications:
    Displacement 6,556 t.(lt) 13,900 t.(fl)
    Length 459' 2"
    Beam 63'
    Draft 26' 4"
    Speed 16.5 kts.
    Complement 425
    Cargo Capacity 4,450 dwt cargo
    Armament
    one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    four twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    eighteen single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Boats
    eight LCMs
    one LCP(L)
    fifteen LCVPs
    Propulsion steam turbine, single shaft, 6,000shp
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