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AF-57 Regulus

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Lima - Uniform - Juliet

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
National Defense Service Medal (2) - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (6-Vietnam) - Vietnam Service Medal (11) - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal

Denebola Class Provisions Store Ship:

Laid down, 29 April 1944, as SS Escanaba Victory, a Maritime Commission type (VC-2-S-AP3) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MCV hull 112), at Oregon Shipbuilding Corp., Portland, OR.

Launched, 7 June 1944

Delivered to the Maritime Commission, 29 June 1944

Acquired by the Navy from MARAD, 5 May 1952

Converted for Naval service as a Provisions Store Ship at Todd Shipyard, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Commissioned USS Regulus (AF-57), 3 February 1954

During the Vietnam War Regulus (AF-57) participated on the following campaigns:

**Vietnam War Campaigns**
Campaigns and Dates	Campaigns and Dates
Vietnamese Counteroffensive 20 to 27 March 1966 7 to 11 April 1966 26 to 30 April 1966	Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969 22 to 28 October 1969
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase II 30 September to 13 October 1966 22 October to 1 November 1966 14 to 25 May 1967	Vietnam Winter-Spring 1970 7 to 13 November 1969 11 to 17 December 1969
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase III 22 June to 10 July 1967	Sanctuary Counteroffensive 15 to 29 June 1970
Tet Counteroffensive 9 to 15 February 1968 7 to 15 March 1968 25 March to 1 April 1968	Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII 16 July to 3 August 1970 14 August to 5 September 1970 8 to 21 September 1970 6 to 17 April 1971 24 to 25 April 1971 3 to 7 May 1971 19 to 28 May 1971 6 to 23 June 1971
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase IV 2 April 1968	Consolidation I 10 to 16 July 1971 29 to 31 July 1971
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VI 24 November to 7 December 1968 13 to 23 December 1968	.

Final Disposition, grounded on a reef at Kau I Chau Island during Typhoon Rose, 16-17 August 1971, damaged beyond economical repair

Decommissioned, and struck from the Naval Register, 10 September 1971

Regulus received 11 campaign stars for Vietnam War service

Specifications:
Displacement 4,960 t.(lt) 11,900 t.(fl)
Length 455' 3"
Beam 62'
Draft 28' 6"
Speed 16 kts.
Complement 250
Armament four twin 3'/50 dual purpose gun mounts
Propulsion geared turbine engine, single propeller, 8,500shp

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
125k	Regulus (AF 57) pierside at the Brooklyn Navy Yard with, *PC-1208* in the foreground. circa 1954.	Courtesy Bob Daly USS PC-1181
80k	Regulus (AF 57) underway at San Francisco Bay in September 1957. Photo by ©Allied Photographers of San Francisco.	Robert M. Cieri
162k	Regulus (AF 57) pierside at Sasebo, Japan in 1959,	Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret, Courtesy Swenson
110k	Regulus (AF 57) underway while alongside Platte (AO-24) in the Tonkin Gulf, circa 1960s	Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
103k	Regulus (AF 57) underway in the South China Sea in 1967. Photo taken from Bausell (DD-845)	Photo by Lee Noland STGC, USN Ret. USS Bausell.

View the Regulus (AF-57)
DANFS history entry located at the US Navy Historical Center

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