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USS Culgoa (AF-3)

1921 - International Radio Call Sign:
Nan - Dog - Unit NDU

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 bronze star in lieu of 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

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
	24k	USS Culgoa, at anchor, date and location unknown. From "With the American Fleet from the Atlantic to the Pacific: with illustrations". photo copyright 1908 by T. C. Muller.	Gunter Krebs
NHHC photo NH 55527	67k	USS Culgoa at anchor 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. After arriving from the Far East *Culgoa* began preparing for her first decommissioning, on 16 October 1901, and subsequent refit. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 55527 US National Archives RG-19-N box 47, Photo # 19-N-14279 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com.	Mike Green
US National Archives photo 19-N-14279, courtesy Shipscribe.com.	131k		Mike Green
	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 History and Heritage Command photo # NH 2359, collection of LCDR Richard Wainwright, USN 1920	US Naval History and Heritage Command
	60k	USS Culgoa at anchor, circa 1908, location unknown. Photo copied with the authors permission from "U.S. Warships of World War One", by Paul H. Silverstone.	Robert Hurst
	47k	USS Culgoa at anchor, date and location unknown. Photo source "Jane's Fighting Ships 1914".	Robert Hurst
	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 History and Heritage Command
	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 History and Heritage Command
09060314	227k	USS Culgoa moored pierside at Honolulu, T.H., 26 August 1920. US National Archives photo # 80-G-1035131, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.	Rick Davis
	102k	USS Culgoa seaman's cap tally	Tommy Trampp

USS Culgoa (AF-3)
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

Commanding Officers
01	LCDR. Carlin, James William, USN (USNA 1868)	3 December 1898 - 8 September 1899
02	CDR. Briggs, John Bancroft, USN (USNA 1869)	8 September 1899 - 6 January 1900
03	CDR. Everett, William Henry, USN (USNA 1868)	6 January 1900 - 10 October 1900
04	LCDR. Fremont Jr., John Charles, USN (USNA 1872) :RADM	10 October 1900 - 30 October 1900
05	CDR. Gearing, Henry Chalfant, USN (USNA 1876)	30 October 1900 - 22 December 1900
06	CDR. Drake, Franklin Jeremiah, USN (USNA 1878)	22 December 1900 - 16 October 1901
	Decommissioned	16 October 1901 - 1 October 1902
07	LCDR. Doyle, Robert Morris, USN (USNA 1875)	1 October 1902 - 1 October 1904
08	LCDR. Oliver, James Harrison, USN (USNA 1877) :RADM	1 October 1904 - 11 August 1905
	Decommissioned	11 August 1905 - 12 September 1907
09	LCDR. Patton, John Bryson, USN	12 September 1907 - 20 March 1909
10	CDR. Phelps, Harry, USN (USNA 1880) :COMO	20 March 1909 - 11 April 1911
11	CDR. Plunkett, Charles Preshall, USN (USNA 1884)	11 April 1911 - 11 October 1911
12	CDR. Latimer, Julian Lane, USN (USNA 1890) :RADM	11 October 1911 - 10 May 1912
13	LCDR. Martin, Francis, USN	10 May 1912 - 17 April 1913
14	LT. Lyons, David, USN	17 April 1913 - 9 October 1913
15	LCDR. De Lany, Edwin Hayden, USN (USNA 1894)	9 October 1913 - 13 March 1914
16	LCDR. Reynolds, William Herbert, USN (USNA 1897)	13 March 1914 - 3 January 1916
17	LT. Grady, John, USN	3 January 1916 - 14 September 1916
18	LCDR. Chase, Gilbert Paul, USN (USNA 1897)	14 September 1916 - 30 December 1917
19	CDR. Svarz, Emil Pravoslav, USN (USNA 1900)	30 December 1917 - 31 May 1918
20	LCDR. Burkhardt, Frank Tower, USNRF	31 May 1918 - ?
21	CDR. Bullock, Charles Herbert, USN	27 April 1921 - 31 December 1921


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