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AK-3 Newport News

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

World War I Victory Medal (with Transport clasp)
Newport News Class Cargo Ship:
  • Built in 1904 by Flensburg Shipbuilding Co., Flensburg, Germany
  • Taken over as Odenwald by the US Navy, 14 May 1917
  • Commissioned USS Newport News, 14 July 1917
  • Designated (AK-3), 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned, 1 August 1924, at Navy Yard, Puget Sound, WA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 August 1924
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 4 April 1925, to John F. Blaine, Berkeley, CA.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 10,000 t.
    Length 371' 5"
    Beam 45' 5"
    Draft 23' 6"
    Speed 13 kts.
    Complement 150
    Armament four single 3" gun mounts
    Propulsion system unknown
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    Undaunted 36k Newport News (AK-3) with Undaunted (AT-58) alongside. Probably in San Francisco Bay, circa the early 1920s. Photograph was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence, 1936.
    US Navy photo # NH 45128, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
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    DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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