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USS Kittery (AK-2)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
World War I Victory Medal (with Transport Clasp)

Kittery Cargo Ship:

Laid down, date unknown, as SS President at G. Seebach Co., Bremerhaven, Germany

Launched, 30 November 1905

Interned at San Juan, P.R., in 1915

Acquired by the US Navy, 14 May 1917

Commissioned USS Kittery, 6 July 1918, at Philadelphia, PA., LCDR. Charles Geddes, USNRF, in command

Designated USS Kittery (AK-2), 17 July 1920

Decommissioned, 5 April 1933

Struck from the Naval Register, 11 April 1933

Transferred to the United State Shipping Board (USSB), 26 June 1933

Final Disposition, scrapped in 1937

Specifications:
Displacement 3,300 t.
Length 293' 8"
Beam 40' 6"
Draft 13' 3"
Speed 15.5 kts.
Complement 87
Armament none
Propulsion steam

Size	Image Description	Source
81k	USS Kittery at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in August 1917. Photographed by John G. Krieger. US Navy photo # NH 520724 from the collections of the US Navy History and Heritage Command, donation of John G. Krieger, 1966-67.	Robert Hurst
46k	USS Kittery (AK-2) probably photographed between mid-1917 to mid-1918. US navy photo # NH 64597-A from the collections of the US Navy History and Heritage Command	Robert Hurst
79k	USS Kittery at anchor probably in the West Indies, circa 1918. Note her pattern camouflage. US Navy photo # NH 106029 from the collections of the US Navy History and Heritage Command, donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2008.	Robert Hurst
88k	USS Kittery at anchor probably in the West Indies, circa 1918. Note her pattern camouflage. US Navy photo # NH 106030 from the collections of the US Navy History and Heritage Command, donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2008.	Robert Hurst
69k	USS Kittery in Guantanamo Bay in 1919. She is still wearing her World War I camouflage paint. US Navy photo # NH 105356 from the collections of the US Navy History and Heritage Command, collection of George K. Beach.	Robert Hurst
98k	USS Kittery departing Hampton Roads, VA., 7 May 1925. US Navy photo # NH 52072 from the collections of the US Navy History and Heritage Command.	Mike Green
96k	USS Kittery (AK-2) photographed circa the 1920s. US Navy photo # HN 2071 from the collections of the US Naval History an Heritage Command	Robert Hurst
109k	USS Kittery underway n the late 1920s or early 1930s, possibly in a Caribbean port. *Kittery* spent her entire Navy career carrying cargo and personnel between the U.S. East Coast and ports in the West Indies. US Navy photo # NH 105296 from the collections of the US Navy History and Heritage Command.	Mike Green
101k	USS Kittery (AK-2) probably photographed in the late 1920s or early 1030s, possibly in a Caribbean port. *Kittery* spent her entire Navy career carrying cargo and personnel between the U.S. East Coast and ports in the West Indies. US Naval photo # NH 52073 from the collections of the US naval History and Heritage Command	Robert Hurst

USS Kittery (AK-2)
DANFS history entry located at the US Navy History and Heritage Command

Commanding Officers
01	LCDR. Geddes, Charles	6 July 1918 - ?
02	CDR. Jensen, Henry Martin	22 March 1921 - ?
03	CDR. Pryor, Frank Davis	26 May 1921 - 22 Oct 1921
04	CDR. Stevens, Lemuel Mussetter	15 April 1924 - 29 March 1926
05	CDR. Cumming, John Whitlow Wetherill	29 March 1926 - 22 October 1929
07	CDR. McGuire, Henry Davis	8 May 1931 - May 1932


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