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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Smolinski

AD-17 Piedmont

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - Kilo - Zulu

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Secretary of the Navy Letter of Commendation
Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon
Second Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Third Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal (2)
Third Row - Korean Service Medal (4) - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Taiwan Straits, 1-Vietnam) - Vietnam Service Medal (1)
Fourth Row - United Nations Service Medal - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)

USS Piedmont (AD-17) was transferred to Turkey, renamed TCG Derya (A-576)

Dixie Class Destroyer Tender:

Laid down, 1 December 1941, at Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Tampa, FL.

Launched, 7 December 1942

Commissioned USS Piedmont (AD-17), 5 January 1944, CDR. Malcolm D. MacGregor in command

During the Korean War Piedmont served in the Korean Theater from, 4 September to 27 October 1950, 1 August 1951 to 12 February 1952, 9 September 1952 to 9 March 1953 and from 11 April to 27 July 1954 and participated in the following campaigns:

**Korean War Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
North Korean Aggression 25 September to 15 October 1950	Korean Defense Summer-Fall 1952 23 September to 3 October 1952 19 to 23 November 1952
Second Korean Winter 8 to 10 January 1952 6 to 7 February 1952	Third Korean Winter 28 to 30 December 1952 24 to 25 January 1953

During the Vietnam War Piedmont participated in the following campaign:

**Vietnam War Campaign**
Campaign and Dates
Vietnam Ceasefire, 29 June to 8 July 1972

Decommissioned, 30 September 1982

Transferred (leased) to Turkey, 18 October 1982, renamed TCG Derya (A-576)

Purchased outright by Turkey and struck from the Naval Register, 6 August1987

Final Disposition, deleted from the Turkish Navy in 1994 and broken up for scrap in 1995

Piedmont received four battle stars for Korean War service and one campaign star for Vietnam War service

Specifications:
Displacement 14,037 t.(lt) 17,176 t.(fl)
Length 530' 6"
Beam 73' 4"
Draft 25' 6"
Speed 19.5 kts. (max), 12 kts. (econ)
Complement 1,076
Armament four 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts, four twin 40mm gun mounts, twenty-three 20mm guns
Propulsion geared turbine engines, twin screws, 11,300shp

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
70k	Piedmont (AD-17) at anchor, location unknown, circa 1943. Note *Piedmont* is painted Camouflage Measure 32, Design 3Ax.	Ray Zandier USS Piedmont via Ken Zandier
145k	Piedmont (AD-17) underway, place and date unknown	Hyperwar US Navy in WWII web site
79k	Piedmont (AD-17), with destroyers alongside possibly at Sasebo, Japan. Ships nested to starboard are from outboard to inboard; Wiltsie (DD-716), Chevalier (DD-805), Hamner (DD-718) and Theodore E. Chandler (DD-717). Destroyers nested to port, from inboard to out board; unidentified destroyer, Maddox (DD-731), Brush (DD-745) and Wiseman (DE-667). US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, January 1956	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
46k	Piedmont (AD-17) at anchor, San Diego, CA., January 1959	Photo by Billy Caldwell USS Piedmont
145k	Piedmont (AD-17) at San Diego in September 1960 with Frank Knox (DD-742), Ozbourn (DD-846) and Arnold J. Isbell (DD-869) alongside.	Photo by Lee Noland STGC USN Ret.
140k	Piedmont (AD-17), with destroyers alongside at Yokosuka, Japan. Ships moored at the pier include; Walker (DD-517), Taylor (DD-468), O'Bannon (DD-450), James B. Kyes (DD-787), McMorris (DE-1036), George K. MacKenzie (DD-836) and Rupertus (DD-851). Nested to *Piedmont's port side are, (from inboard to outboard; Preston* (DD-795), Maddox (DD-731), Samuel N. Moore (DD-747) and Brush (DD-745). US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, April 1963	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
122k	Piedmont (AD-17) at Naval Station Subic Bay in 1966. Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts alongside from outboard to inboard include; Evans (DE-1023) Hooper (DE-1026) Jenkins (DD-447) and Samuel N. Moore (DD-747) Photo taken from Bausell (DD-845) href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/845.htm">Bausell (DD-845) by Lee Noland STGC USN Ret.	Lee Noland STGC USN Ret. USS Bausell
91k	Piedmont (AD-17) renders repair and maintenance service to Agerholm (DD-826) while deployed with the Seventh Fleet, date and place unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, October 1971.	Stanley C. Svec.
68k	Piedmont (AD-17) with Graham County (AGP-1176) and Mahan (DDG-42) alongside, Naples, June 1976	© Richard Leonhardt
66k	Piedmont(AD-17) anchored at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 28 February 1966	© Richard Leonhardt
86k	Piedmont (AD-17) pierside at Naval Station Subic Bay, P.I. with McKean (DD-784) and Henderson (DD-785) alongside. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, June 1966	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
30k	Piedmont (AD-17), at Naples during the summer of 1975. Photo was taken from Stribling (DD-867).	Photo by Russ Hartley
54k	Piedmont (AD-17) underway, place and date unknown	Walt Reasons
57k	Piedmont (AD-17) underway departing San Diego, date unknown. ©Marine Photos, San Diego, CA.	Mike Smolinski
62k	Piedmont (AD-17) underway, date and place unknown. ©Marine Photos, San Diego, CA.	Mike Smolinski
18k	Piedmont (AD-17) decommissioning crew, September 1982	Walt Reasons