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USS Culgoa (AF-3)



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Philippine Campaign Medal - Mexican Service Medal
Bottom Row - Haitian Campaign Medal - Dominican Campaign Medal - World War I Victory Medal (with Transport Clasp)
Culgoa Class Provisions Store Ship:
  • Built in 1889 by J. L. Thompson and Sons, Ltd., Sunderland, England
  • Purchased at Cavite, P.I. by the US Navy, 4 June 1898
  • Commissioned USS Culgoa, 3 December 1898, LCDR. J. W. Carlin in command
  • Decommissioned, 16 October 1901, at Boston, MA.
  • Recommissioned, 1 October 1902
  • Decommissioned, 11 August 1905
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 7 May 1906
  • Reinstated on the Naval Register, 20 June 1906
  • Recommissioned, 12 September 1907
  • Designated Provisions Store Ship (AF-3), 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned, 31 December 1921, at New York, N.Y.
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Final Disposition, sold 25 July 1922, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 6,000 t.
    Length 346' 4"
    Beam 43'
    Draft 21' 9"
    Speed 13 kts.
    Complement 122
    Armament two 6-pdrs
    Propulsion two compound engines, two shafts
    Collection of Lieutenant Commander Richard Wainwright, USN, 1920. .
    US Navy photo # NH 2359 from the US Naval Historical Center, collection of LCDR Richard Wainwright, USN 1920
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    Culgoa 24k USS Culgoa, at anchor, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Gunter Krebs
    Culgoa 67k USS Culgoa off Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, MA., 1 October 1901. She is flying a long "homeward bound" pennant from her mainmast peak, marking the end of a voyage from the Philippines.
    US Navy photo # NH 55527 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Culgoa 43k USS Culgoa at Messina, Italy (Sicily) in late December 1908 to render assistance to the victims of the 28 December earthquake. She was stores ship for the "Great White Fleet" during its 1907-1909 World cruise. US Naval Historical Center
    Culgoa 60k USS Culgoa at anchor, circa 1908, location unknown.br>Photo copied with the authors permission from "U.S. Warships of World War One", by Paul H. Silverstone. Robert Hurst
    Culgoa 47k USS Culgoa at anchor, date and location unknown.
    Photo source "Jane's Fighting Ships 1914".    		 Robert Hurst
    Culgoa 43k USS Culgoa at the New York Naval Review, October 1912.
    US Navy photo # NH 55526 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Culgoa 76k USS Culgoa underway in the East River, New York City, circa the 1910s or early 1920s. Photographed by N. Moser, New York.
    US Navy photo # NH 104600 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007.    		 US Naval Historical Center
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    Not Applicable to this Vessel
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