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AE-16 Mount Katmai

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons




Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Unit Commendation - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (2) - American Campaign Medal
Second Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal (2)
Third Row - Korea Service Medal (9) - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Quemoy-Matsu, 1-Vietnam)- Vietnam Service Medal (8)
Fourth Row - United Nations Korea Service Medal - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)
Mount Hood Class Ammunition Ship:
  • Laid down, 11 November 1944 as a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-AJ1) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1704) at North Carolina Shipbuilding Co., Wilmington, N.C.
  • Launched, 6 January 1945
  • Commissioned USS Mount Katmai (AE-16), 21 July 1945 at Jacksonville, FL.
  • Decommissioned (date unknown)
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 14 August 1973
  • Turned over to Maritime Administration (MARAD) for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping by MARAD, 5 April 1974
  • Mount Katmai received nine battle stars for Korean service and nine battle stars for Vietnam service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 14,400 t.(fl)
    Length 459' 2"
    Beam 63'
    Draft 28' 3"
    Speed 16.4 kts.
    Complement 290
    Armament four 3"/50 guns
    Propulsion geared turbine single propeller, 6,000shp
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    Mount Katmai 63k Mount Katmai (AE-16) underway in Sinclair Inlet off Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 26 May 1947. Broadside view, starboard side.
    Puget Sound Naval Shipyard photo # NY8-811 now in the collections of the US National Archives Seattle Branch    		 Tracy White
    Mount Katmai 64k Mount Katmai (AE-16) underway in Sinclair Inlet off Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 26 May 1947. Bow view approximately °45 off center.
    Puget Sound Naval Shipyard photo # NY8-812 now in the collections of the US National Archives Seattle Branch    		 Tracy White
    Mount Katmai 61k Mount Katmai (AE-16) underway in Sinclair Inlet off Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 26 May 1947. Stern view from After Center Line.
    Puget Sound Naval Shipyard photo # NY8-813 now in the collections of the US National Archives Seattle Branch    		 Tracy White
    Mount Katmai 49k Mount Katmai (AE-16) underway in Sinclair Inlet off Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 26 May 1947. Head on view.
    Puget Sound Naval Shipyard photo # NY8-814 now in the collections of the US National Archives Seattle Branch    		 Tracy White
    Mount Katmai 48k Mount Katmai (AE-16) underway in Sinclair Inlet off Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 26 May 1947. View from directly astern.
    Puget Sound Naval Shipyard photo # NY8-815 now in the collections of the US National Archives Seattle Branch    		 Tracy White
    Mount Katmai 135k Mount Katmai (AE-16) transferring bombs during underway replenishment with Philippine Sea (CV-47) off Korea, 29 November 1950. Note: Crewmen standing in the carrier's forward hangar bay, and Grumman F9F-2 "Panther" fighters and LeTourneau crane parked on her flight deck. Crewmen on Mount Katmai are wearing cold weather clothing. A few days after this photo was taken, Philippine Sea commenced a period of close-support operations in the vicinity of the Chosin Reservoir.
    US Navy National Archives photo # 80-G-439879, a US Navy photo now in the collection of the US National Archives    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Mount Katmai 157k US Navy ships take on supplies while moored in Sasebo harbor, circa December 1950. Photographed from Princeton (CV 37), which arrived in the area on her first Korean War deployment in early December. Among the ships in the background are Mount Katmai (AE 16), in left center, and Comstock (LSD 19), at right. Planes on Princeton's deck are AD "Skyraiders".
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-423620, a US Navy photo now in the collection of the US National Archives    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Mount Katmai 113k Mount Katmai (AE-16) off Point Loma as she enters San Diego Bay, date unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 .
    View series of photos of Mount Katmai undergoing Inclining Experiments at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, 2 March 1949
    View the Mount Katmai (AE-16)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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    Fleet Reserve Association
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