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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Smolinski

USS Shenandoah (AD-44)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Bravo - India - Oscar NBIO

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (5) - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (3) - National Defense Service Medal
Bottom Row - Southwest Asia Campaign Medal (2) - Sea Service Deployment Ribbon - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)

Yellowstone Class Destroyer Tender:

Laid down, 2 August 1980, at National Steel and Shipbuilding, San Diego, CA.

Launched, 6 February 1982

Commissioned USS Shenandoah (AD-44), 15 August 1983, at San Diego, CA.

Decommissioned, 13 September 1996

Transferred to the Maritime Administration for disposal, 28 July 2001, for disposal

Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Fort Eustis, VA.

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 13,482 t.(lt) 20,429 t.(fl)
Length 642'
Beam 85'
Draft 25'
Speed 20 kts.
Complement 1,500
Armament one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
Propulsion two boilers, steam turbine, one shaft, 20,000 shaft horsepower

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
	49k	*USS Shenandoah* (AD-44)** prior to launch, at National Steel and Shipbuilding, San Diego, CA	Annmarie (Byrnes) Ponder LaDue DM2(SW) USN Ret, USS Shenandoah plank owner
	207k	*USS Shenandoah* (AD-44)**, Christened by her sponsor, Mrs. W. Graham Claytor, Jr., wife of the Secretary of the Navy, and launch at National Steel and Shipbuilding, San Diego, CA., 6 February 1982	S. Dale Hargrave
	469k	*USS Shenandoah* (AD-44)** sliding down the builders ways after Christening by her sponsor, Mrs. W. Graham Claytor, Jr., wife of the Secretary of the Navy, at National Steel and Shipbuilding, San Diego, CA., 6 February 1982	S. Dale Hargrave
	59k	*USS Shenandoah* (AD-44)** prior to commissioning, at National Steel and Shipbuilding, San Diego, CA	Annmarie (Byrnes) Ponder LaDue DM2(SW) USN Ret, USS Shenandoahplank owner
	121k	*USS Shenandoah* (AD-44)** underway shortly after being commissioned in August 1983 US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, March 1984	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
	82k	*USS Shenandoah* (AD-44)**, underway, location and date unknown	.
	52k	*USS Shenandoah* (AD-44)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo	Federation of American Scientists
	50k	*USS Shenandoah* (AD-44)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo	Federation of American Scientists
	61k	*USS Shenandoah* (AD-44)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo	Federation of American Scientists
	797k	*USS Shenandoah* (AD-44) moored pierside at Marseille France, circa 1987-88, with USS Comte De Grasse (DD-974) and USS Aylwin (DE-1081)**.	Photo by Philippe Gonzales
	114k	*USS Shenandoah* (AD-44) with USS John King (DDG-3)** alongside, date and location unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, May 1990 edition by Photo by JO1 Kip Burke, USN.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
	113k	*USS Shenandoah* (AD-44)** underway during a simulated high-line transfer with USS Charleston (LKA 113) in 1984.	Photo by Bill Fessenden
	1443k	*USS Shenandoah* (AD-44)** arriving at Genoa, Italy, 9 October 1987.	Photo by Carlo Martinelli
	69k	*USS Shenandoah* (AD-44) moored pierside at Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in November 1991, with USS Dale (CG-19)** alongside.	Photo by Pedro Vidal
	99k	*USS Shenandoah* (AD-44)** plaque.	Tommy Trampp
MARAD James River Group Reserve Fleet
	51k	From left to right; *SS Cape Mendocino* (AKR-5064) ex-USS Shenandoah (AD-44) and ex- USS Sylvania (AFS-2)**, rafted together in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall, VA., 8 April 2009	Photo by Mike Hibbard
	103k		Photo by Mike Hibbard