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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

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USS Sirius (AF-60)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Zulu - Foxtrot - Charlie NZFC
JANAP Tactical Voice Radio Call Sign - Yonkers (D)elta - Section 6A of JANAP 119(F) 1968

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

National Defense Service Medal

Sirius Class Stores Ship:

Laid down, 5 January 1942, as SS Trade Wind, 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, under a General Agency Agreement to United Fruit Line

Chartered by Pacific Far East Line Inc., 25 September 1946, at San Francisco, CA.

Laid up, 2 July 1948, in the Maritime Administration (MARAD) National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.

Chartered by Pacific Far East Line Inc., 16 August 1948

Laid up, 20 January 1949, in the MARAD National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.

Acquired by the US Navy from MARAD, 18 May 1956

Commissioned USS Sirius (AF-60), 12 January 1957, at San Francisco, CA., CDR. Granville, F. Coffin, USN in Command

Decommissioned, 14 May 1964

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 August 1965

Returned to MARAD, 1 August 1965, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 13 April 1971, to West Waterway Lumber Co., Seattle, WA. During the dismantling process in early 1972 the vessel caught fire and capsized off the breakers' yard. It took the company almost two years to secure the wreck. Finally, in late 1973, it was cut into pieces "as lies"

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

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
Merchant Service
	64k	SS Trade Wind at anchor, date and location unknown.	Gerhard Mueller-Debus
USS Sirius (AF-60)
0913001510	23k	*Namesake* Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky.	Tommy Trampp
	80k	*USS Sirius* (AF-60)** under way, date and location unknown. US Navy photo.	Courtesy Lyle Hildebrand USS Vega web site
	79k	*USS Sirius* (AF-60)** under way passing under the Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco in 1958. Photo by ©Allied Photographers of San Francisco.	Robert M. Cieri
	55k	*USS Sirius* (AF-60)** under way, date and location unknown.	Richard Miller
09066607	222k	*USS Sirius* (AF-60)** underway, date and location unknown.	Nicholas Tiberio
	144k	Ex-*USS Sirius* (AF-60)** partially sunk at Seattle, WA., after she caught fire, 28 January 1972, while being scrapped. She later capsized again and was finally scrapped on her side in 1973. US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo # NH 89303	Mike Green

USS Sirius (AF-60)
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

Commanding Officers
01	CDR. Coffin, Granville Farewell, USN	12 January 1957 - 28 February 1959
02	CDR. Kicker, Harold Jerome, USN	28 February 1959 - 23 August 1960
03	CDR. Schug, Donald Frederick, USNR	23 August 1960 - August 1961
04	CAPT. Healy, Charles Edward, USN	August 1961 - September 1962
05	LCDR. Harlan, Donald Michael, USN (USNA 1949)	14 October 1963 - 14 May 1964


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