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AF-12 Mizar

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (4) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal
Mizar Class Stores Ship
  • Built in 1932 as SS Quiriqua for United Fruit Co. at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy, MA.
  • Acquired by the US Navy through the Maritime Commission on a bare-boat basis
  • Converted for Naval service at Brewer's Drydock Co., Staten Island, N.Y.
  • Commissioned USS Mizar (AF-12), 14 June 1941, CDR. E. D. Walbridge in command
  • Decommissioned, 1 April 1946, at Baltimore, MD.
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission the same day for return to United Fruit Co. name reverted to SS Quiriqua
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 17 April 1946
  • Sold by United Fruit in 1959 to Elder & Fyffes, renamed SS Samala
  • Final Disposition, broken up at Kaohsiung, February 1964
  • Mizar received four battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 6,982 t.(lt) 11,880 t.(fl)
    Length 447' 10"
    Beam 60'
    Draft 25' 2"
    Speed 18 kts. (max)
    Cargo Capacity 2,615 DWT
    Complement 238
    Armament one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, four 3"/50 guns
    Propulsion Turbo-electric, twin screws, 11,000shp.
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    USS Mizar (AF-12)
    Mizar 15k Mizar (AF-12) underway, date and place unknown. Gunter Krebs
    Mizar 84k Stern view of Mizar (AF-12) departing Mare Island, 8 February 1946. Ships to the right: LST is either LST-772 or LST-271 both arrived at the Ammunition Depot on this date, next is Starr (AKA-67) and an identified tug.
    Mare Island Naval Shipyard photo # 564-46, 2/5/46.    		 Darryl Baker
    Mizar 81k Broadside view of Mizar (AF-12) departing Mare Island, 8 February 1946. Mizar was under going repairs at Mare Island from 28 January to 8 February 1946. Note LST-1138 in the background.
    Mare Island Naval Shipyard photo # 566-46, 2/5/46.    		 Darryl Baker
    Mizar 74k Bow on view of Mizar (AF-12) departing Mare Island, 8 February 1946.
    Mare Island Naval Shipyard photo # 568-46, 2/5/46.    		 Darryl Baker
    Commercial Service
    Mizar 78k Pre-war view of United Fruit Company's. SS Quiriqua moored pierside, date and place unknown. David Nixon
    Mizar 53k ex-Mizar (AF-12) moored pierside in commercial service as Elder & Fyffes' SS Samala, date and place unknown. David Nixon
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