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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Smolinski

USS Puget Sound (AD-38)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Echo - Sierra - Papa NESP

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Unit Commendation
Second Row - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (4) - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (5) - Navy Expeditionary Medal (3-Lebanon)
Third Row - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Lebanon, 2-Libya) - Southwest Asia Service Medal

Samuel Gompers Class Destroyer Tender:

Laid down, 15 February 1965, at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA.

Launched, 16 September 1966

Commissioned USS Puget Sound (AD-38), 27 April 1968, CAPT. R. B. Jacobs USN in command

Decommissioned, 27 January 1996

Laid up at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, PA., maintenance category B

Struck from the Naval Register, 13 December 2007

Final Disposition, contract awarded, 11 January 2008 to ESCO Marine, Brownsville, TX. to dismantle ex-USS Puget Sound

Specifications:
Displacement 13,458 t.(lt) 20,132 t. (fl)
Length 643'
Beam 85'
Draft 30' (limiting)
Speed 20+ kts.
Complement 1,806
Armament one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
Propulsion two 600 lb Steam boilers, 20,000 Shaft horsepower, single propeller

Size	Image Description	Source
73k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38) moored pierside at Naval Station Newport, R.I., November 1968. Photo taken from USS Hugh Purvis (DD-709)**	© Richard Leonhardt
39k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38)** moored pierside, circa 1972, location unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, December 1972 issue.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
91k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38)** tending destroyers at Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1972-73. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, September 1973.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
116k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38) moored pierside at D&S piers NavSta Norfolk, VA. with USS King (DDG-41) and possibly USS Scott (DDG-995)** opposite side of the pier, circa late 1980's.	.
72k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38)** underway in the Straits of Juan De Fuca during her initial shakedown cruise in 1968.	.
153k	Sixth Fleet Flagship *USS Puget Sound* (AD-38)** fires a salute during change of command ceremonies at Gaeta, Italy, 5 June 1981. US Navy photo by PH1 Robert Atkinson, from "All Hands" magazine, October 1981 issue.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
132k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38) in port in the Mediterranean, 1 December 1981. Ships alongside are USS Moinester (FF-1097) and USS Coontz (DDG-40)*. US Navy photo, DNSN8207028*, by PH1 Douglas Tesner.	Defense Visual Information Center
186k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38)** receives supplies from a CH-46 helicopter belonging to Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 6 (HC-6) assigned to the *USS Concord* (AFS-5)** by vertrep at Gaeta, Italy, circa 1981. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, February 1982 issue.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
105k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38)** receives supplies from a CH-46 helicopter belonging to Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 6 (HC-6) assigned to the *USS Concord* (AFS-5) by vertrep at Gaeta, Italy, circa 1981. Note the destroyer USS John Rodgers (DD-983)** alongside to port. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, February 1982 issue.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
120k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38)** secured to her moorings at Gaeta, Italy, circa 1981. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, February 1982 issue.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
76k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38) moored pierside at Barcelona, Spain, 19 September 1982. Puget Sound was the flagship for ComSixthFlt, from 1980 to 1985. Note; USS Sylvania (AFS 2)** outboard port side.	Photo by Fabio Peña
113k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38) nests off Athens, Greece with (from outboard to inboard) USS Virginia (CGN-38), USS McCandless (FF-1084) and USS South Carolina (CGN-37)** . US Navy photo by PH2 Dorothy J. Affeldt, from "All Hands" magazine, November 1983 issue.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
68k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38)** at Santa Semana, Malaga, Spain, April 1984.	Photo by Ignacio Lopez ex member Armada Espanola
173k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38) and USS Comte de Grasse (DD-974)** moored pierside, date and location unknown. US Navy photo by PH3 Joan Zoft, from "All Hands" magazine, January 1988 issue.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
66k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38)** underway, date and location unknown. ©Atlantic Fleet Sales, Norfolk, VA.	Mike Smolinski
59k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo.	Tom Langford
67k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38)** underway, date and location unknown.	Derick S. Hartshorn
212k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38)** laid up at the Philadelphia Naval Ship Inactive Maintenance Facility (NISMF), 20 October 29, 2007. Photo ©Marc Piché, Vercheres, Quebec, Canada.	TJ Tropea RM1 USN Ret., Courtesy Marc Piché.
102k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38)** Welcome Aboard pamphlet, 1977.	Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
95k	*USS Puget Sound* (AD-38)** Decommissioning Program.	Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.