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ID-1854 / AF-6 Rappahannock

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

World War I Victory Medal (with Transport clasp)
Animal Transport / Stores Ship;
  • Laid down at Bremer-Vulcan Yards, Vegesack, Germany as SS Pommern for the North German Lloyd Line
  • Launched in 1913
  • Seized at US entry into WWI and assigned by the United States Shipping Board (USSB) to the US Navy
  • Commissioned, USS Rappahannock (ID. No. 1854), 8 December 1917
  • Placed in reserve status at Portsmouth, VA. in 1919
  • Designated (AF-6), 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned, 10 December 1924 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at Mare Island Navy Yard
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 19 July 1933
  • Sold, 5 October 1933, to Luckenbach Steamship Co., New York, N.Y., renamed SS William Luckenbach
  • Resold in November 1946 to an Italian shipping Co.
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 17,000
    Length 471'2"
    Beam 59'2"
    Draft 26'6"
    Speed 11.5 kts.
    Complement 155
    Complement 1945 21 officers and 261 enlisted
    Armament
    one single 5" gun mount
    one single 3" gun mount
    Propulsion steam, single propeller
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    Rappahannock 42k Rappahannock (AF-6) at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, circa 1922 CAPT. Walter W. White, USCG Ret in remembrance of his father
    LCDR Eric W. White, USN Ret USS Rappahannock
    Rappahannock 110k Rappahannock (AF-6) off Pensacola, FL., July 1924.
    from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 US Naval Historical Center
    View the Rappahannock (AF-6)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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