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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
  • Redesignated 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 system unknown
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    Kittery 33k Kittery (AK-2) underway, circa 1924, location unknown.
    US Navy photo # NR&L(M) 13469 from DANFS    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN
    Kittery 62k Kittery (AK-2) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo from DANFS    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN
    Kittery 92k Kittery (AK-2) at anchor, circa 1930, location unknown.
    Photo from "U.S. Warships of World War One", courtesy Paul H. Silverstone.    		 Robert Hurst
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center.
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    Not Applicable to this Vessel
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