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AD-42 Acadia

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Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Unit Commendation
Second Row - Navy Battle "E" Ribbons (5) - Navy Expeditionary Medal (2-Persian Gulf) - National Defense Service Medal
Bottom Row - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (2-Persian Gulf, 1-Somalia) - Southwest Asia Service Medal - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)
Yellowstone Class Destroyer Tender:
  • Laid down, 14 February 1978, at National Steel and Shipbuilding, San Diego, CA.
  • Launched, 28 July 1979
  • Commissioned USS Acadia (AD-42), 6 June 1981, CAPT. Brenton P. Hardy in command
  • Decommissioned, 16 December 1994
  • Laid up at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Pearl Harbor HI.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 13 December 2007
    Specifications:
    Displacement 13,526 t.(lt) 21,916 t.(fl)
    Length 643'
    Beam 85'
    Draft 25'
    Speed 20 kts.
    Complement 1,500
    Armament one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    Propulsion two boilers, steam turbines, one shaft, 20,000 shaft horsepower
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    Acadia 55k Acadia (AD-42) laid up at NISMF Pearl Harbor, 1 August 2000 Photo by Jim Bedient
    Acadia 62k Acadia (AD-42) laid up at NISMF Pearl Harbor, 1 August 2000 Photo by Jim Bedient
    Acadia 89k Acadia (AD-42) Welcome Aboard Pamphlet Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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