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AF-60 Sirius

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Sirius Class Stores Ship:
  • Laid down, 5 January 1942, as SS Tradewind, a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-B1) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 185) at Moore Dry Dock Co., Oakland, CA.
  • Launched, 11 April 1942
  • Delivered to the War Shipping Administration (WSA), 30 April 1943
  • Acquired by the US Navy from the Maritime Administration (MARAD), 18 May 1956
  • Commissioned USS Sirius (AF-60), 12 January 1957, at San Francisco, CA.
  • Decommissioned in 1964
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 August 1965
  • Returned to MARAD for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet
  • Sold, 13 April 1971, to West Waterway Lumber Co., Seattle, WA.
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1971
    Specifications:
    Displacement 7,430 t.(lt), 13,893 t.(fl)
    Length 459'
    Beam 63'
    Draft 27'
    Speed 17 kts. (max.)
    Complement 278
    Armament none
    Propulsion 600psi cross compound steam turbine, single propeller
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    Sirius 80k Sirius (AF-60) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Courtesy Lyle Hildebrand USS Vega web site
    Sirius 79k Sirius (AF-60) underway passing under the Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco in 1958.
    Photo by ©Allied Photographers of San Francisco.    		 Robert M. Cieri
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