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ID 4540 / AF-16 Pastores

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Bravo - November - Yankee

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) - World War I Victory Medal (with Transport clasp) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal (1)

Pastores Class Stores Ship:

Built in 1913 at Workman Clark, Ltd., Belfast, Northern Ireland

Acquired by the US Navy from the United Fruit Company, 1 May 1918

Commissioned USS Pastores (ID-4540), 6 May 1918

Decommissioned, 8 October 1919

Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown) and returned to the United Fruit Co.

Reacquired by the War Shipping Administration, 20 December 1941

Reacquired by the US Navy, 23 December 1941

Commissioned, USS Pastores (AF-16), 13 February 1942, CAPT. C. L. Andrews, in command

During World War II Pastores was assigned to the Caribbean and Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaign:

Leyte operations

Decommissioned, 14 March 1946, at San Francisco, CA.

Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal

Struck from the Naval Register, 28 March 1946

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 19 December 1946, to Walter W. Johnson, Co.

Pastores earned one battle star for World War II service

Specifications:
Displacement 12,650 t.(fl)
Length 486' 6"
Beam 55'
Draft 27' 4"
Speed 15.5 kts.
Complement unknown
Cargo Capacity 2,300 DWT
Armament

World War I - 4 5" guns, 2 1-pdrs

World War II - 1 single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, four 3"/50 guns, eight 20mm guns
Propulsion reciprocating engines; twin screws, 6,500shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS Pastores (ID # 4540)
	56k	Pastores (ID # 4540) just outside Quiburon Bay, France, in 1918. She is being met by Piqua (SP-130), from which the photograph was taken. US Navy photo # NH 43542.	US Naval Historical Center
	62k	Pastores (ID # 4540) at anchor, date and place unknown.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
	89k	Pastores (ID # 4540) arriving in New York City in June 1919, at the end of her 20th trip as a transport. Panoramic photograph by Pictorial News, New York. Note the inscription in lower right, describing Pastores as "One of the first transports to land troops in France" during the First World War. US Navy photo # NH 104446 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007.	US Naval Historical Center
USS Pastores (AF-16)
	38k	Pastores (AF-16) underway, circa 1943, place unknown. US Navy photo.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
	56k	Pastores (AF-16) entering San Francisco Bay, CA., circa late 1945 or early 1946. Note the long homeward-bound pennant flying from her mainmast. US Navy photo # NH 66854-A, donated by BM1 Robert G. Tippins, USN Ret., 2003.	A US Naval Historical Center photo submitted by Martin Phillips for his father N. Lane Phillips USS Pastores

View the Pastores (AF-16)
DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center

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