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ID-4156 Edisto / AD-11 Altair

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign: November - Uniform - Romeo - Juliet
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is left to right
American Defense Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Altair Class Destroyer Tender
  • Laid down under United State Shipping Board (USSB) contract 1738 as SS Edisto, 18 December 1918, at Skinner and Eddy Corp., Seattle, WA.
  • Launched, 10 May 1919
  • Assigned US Navy ID No. 4156
  • Completed in June 1919
  • Transferred to the Navy from the USSB, 29 October 1921
  • Renamed Altair, 2 November 1921
  • Commissioned USS Altair (AD-11), 6 December 1921, at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y., Comdr. James H. Comfort in command
  • Decommissioned, 21 June 1946, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register and transferred to the Maritime Commission for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 9 March 1948, to Basalt Rock Co., Napa CA.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 13,925 t.(fl)
    Length 423' 9"
    Beam 54'
    Draft 27' 2"
    Speed 10.5 kts.
    Complement 481
    Armament four 5" gun mounts, two 3" gun mounts (authorized but never installed)
    Propulsion system unknown
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    Altair 46k Altair (AD-11) underway, circa 1927 place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Robert Hurst
    Altair 19k Altair (AD-11) underway, date and place unknown. Hyper War US Navy in WWII
    Altair 27k Altair (AD-11) underway, date and place unknown. Hyper War US Navy in WWII
    Altair 93k Altair (AD-11) in what appears to be Measure 12 (modified) camouflage, moored at Port of Spain, Trinidad, 1 October 1942, tending Spay (PG-64), Bainbridge (DD-246), and Goff (DD-247), and the Dutch minelayer/patrol vessel HNMS Jan van Brakel (M-80).
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-31669, a US Navy photo, now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN
    Altair 38k Altair (AD-11) off Norfolk Navy Yard following refit, 25 July 1945
    US Navy photo    		 .
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