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USS Uranus (AF-14)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Bravo - Echo - Golf NBEG

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
Second Row - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Uranus Class Stores Ship:

Built in 1933 as SS Helga by Helsingoors Shipbuilding Works, Elsinore, Denmark, for J. Lauritzen A/S, (JL), Copenhagen, Denmark

Renamed SS Caravelle in 1938

Renamed SS Marie in 1940

Acquired by the US Navy from the Maritime Commission, 11 August 1941

Converted for Naval service at Robbins Drydock Co., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Commissioned USS Uranus (AF-14), 27 October 1941, at Brooklyn, N.Y., CDR. Orin R. Hewitt, in command

Decommissioned, 8 May 1946, at Norfolk, VA.

Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 9 May 1946, for return to J. Lauritzen

Struck from the Naval Register, 21 May 1946

Returned to commercial service by J. Lauritzen as SS Maria Dan, re-flagged Danish, registered at Esbjerg, Denmark, engaged in carrying wood pulp from the Baltic to the United Kingdom until about 1959

Sold to Chrisot M. Sarlis, Patras, Greece, in 1959, renamed SS Michael

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping to Sveti Kajo, Split, Yugoslavia in 1968

Specifications:
Displacement 3,540 t.(fl)
Length 269' 6"
Beam 39' 6"
Draft 16'
Speed 11.5 kts (trial)

Complement

Officers 13

Enlisted 80

Largest Boom Capacity 3 t.

Cargo Capacity 1,415 DWT

refrigerated 112,500 Cu ft.

Armament

two single 3"/50 cal dual purpose gun mounts

six single 20mm AA gun mounts

Fuel Capacities

NSFO 2,450 Bbls

Diesel 310 Bbls

Propulsion

one Helsingoors double vertical double expansion single exhaust reciprocating steam engine

two Scotch boilers, 210psi, Sat.

single Helsingoors Main Reduction Gears
Ship's Service Generators
one Diesel-drive 60Kw 120V D.C.
two Diesel-drive 40Kw 120V D.C.

single propeller, 1,140shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS Uranus (AF-14)
19-N-60186	112k	*USS Uranus* (AF-14)** off Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, 11 December 1943. US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, . Photo #'s 19-N-60186 and 19-N-60188, US Navy Bureau of Ships photos now in the collections of the US National Archives	Robert Hurst
19-N-60188	112k		Robert Hurst
19-N-81361	80k	*USS Uranus* (AF-14)** at San Francisco, 19 September 1944 US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, Photo #'s 19-N-81361, 19-N-81363 and 19-N-81364, US Navy Bureau of Ships photos now in the collections of the US National Archives	Robert Hurst and Mike Green
19-N-81363	105k
19-N-81364	104k
Commercial Service
	84k	Ex-Uranus (AF-14) at the breakers yard, Sveti Kajo, Split, Yugoslavia in 1968	David Nixon

USS Uranus (AF-14)
DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History and Heritage Command

Commanding Officers
01	CDR. Hewitt, Orrin Russell	27 October 1941 - ?
02	LCDR. Hackett, E. J.	WWII
03	LT. Presper, S. H.	WWII
04	LT. Anderson, Alexander F.	WWII


Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

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