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AF-22 Ariel

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Mizar Class Stores Ship:
  • Built in 1933 as Jamaica at Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport News, VA., for United Fruit Co.
  • Acquired by the US Navy, 24 March 1942
  • Converted for Naval service at Todd's Galveston, TX., Shipyard
  • Commissioned, USS Ariel (AF-22), 14 May 1942, at Galveston, TX., Capt. E.P. Hylant, in command
  • Decommissioned, 21 June 1946, at New York, N.Y. and Transferred to the Maritime Commission the same day for disposal
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 3 July 1946
  • Final Disposition, returned to United Fruit Co., 1946
  • Resold and renamed SS Peten
  • Resold and renamed SS Blumenthal, reflagged German
  • Final Disposition, scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, December 1969
    Specifications:
    Displacement 7,068 t.(lt) 11,875 t.(fl)
    Length 446' 10"
    Beam 60' 3"
    Draft 26'
    Speed 18.5 kts. (max)
    Cargo Capacity 2,615 DWT
    Complement 238
    Armament one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, three single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts, twelve 20mm guns
    Propulsion Turbo-electric, twin screws, 11,000shp
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    Ariel 62k ex-Ariel (AF-22) in commercial service as SS Blumenthal moored pierside at Bremerhaven, Germany in September 1965. Photo Gerhard Mueller-Debus
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