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AF-28 Hyades

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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal
Second Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Third Row - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (2-Cuba & 1-Lebanon) - Philippine Liberation Medal
Hyades Class Stores Ship:
  • Laid down, 12 October 1942, as SS Iberville, a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-E1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC 481) at Gulf Shipbuilding Co., Chickasaw, AL.
  • Launched, 12 June 1943
  • Placed in partial Commission for transit to her fitting out yard at Bethlehem Steel Co., Baltimore MD.
  • Completed as a Stores Ship and Commissioned USS Hyades (AF-28), 1 August 1944, CDR. M. C. Wheyland in command
  • Decommissioned (date unknown)
  • Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall, VA.,18 March 1969
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 October 1976
  • Custody transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) , 1 September 1971
  • Final Disposition, disposed of by MARAD, 17 January 1984, exchange-trade-out scrap ship to Jacobson Metal Co., 13 October 1983
    Specifications:
    Displacement 7,700 t.(lt) 13,893 t.(fl)
    Length 469' 9"
    Beam 63'
    Draft 25' 11"
    Speed 16 kts.
    Complement 252
    Armament
    one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    four single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts
    Propulsion steam turbine, single shaft, 6,300shp
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    Hyades 29k Hyades (AF-28) underway in a World War II painted in camouflage scheme 32/6F, date and location unknown. Gunter Krebs
    Hyades 38k Hyades (AF-28) underway, date and location unknown. Robert Hurst
    Hyades 87k Hyades (AF-28) crew members, circa 1944-45, location unknown. Anthony M. Schulmeyer is the officer in the front row far right end. Wayne M. Schulmeyer for his father Anthony M. Schulmeyer USS Hyades
    Hyades 55k Hyades (AF-28) crew members, circa 1944-45, location unknown. Anthony M. Schulmeyer is the officer in the back row third from the left. Wayne M. Schulmeyer for his father Anthony M. Schulmeyer USS Hyades
    Hyades 62k Hyades (AF-28) (broadside view) moored pierside at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, 6 May 1948 while undergoing Inclining Experiments.
    US Naval Shipyard Puget Sound photo # NY8-2241 now in the collections of the US National Archives, Seattle Branch.
    Additional photos of the 8 May 1948 Inclining Experiments can be found at AF-28 Hyades-Page Two    		 Tracy White
    Hyades 43k Hyades (AF-28) at anchor, circa 1952, location unknown. Robert Hurst
    Hyades 171k Hyades (AF-28) underway in October 1959, location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Mike Smolinski
    Hyades 94k Hyades (AF-28) and Leyte (CV-32) at anchor, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Robert Carey
    Hyades 107k Hyades (AF-28) underway opposite Pier 3 NOB Norfolk, VA, July 1964 with assistance of two tugs. © Richard Leonhardt
    Hyades 58k Hyades (AF-28) underway, date and location unknown. .
    Hyades 90k Hyades (AF-28) replenishing Worchester (CL-144), date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from DANFS    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
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