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AK-46 Pleiades

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (Convoy SC-107, 1 - 4 November 1943) - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal
  • Built in 1939 as Mangalia for the Romanian State Maritime Service by Cantieri Navali Riuniti, Palermo, Italy
  • Taken over while lying idle at New York, 25 June 1941, by the U.S. Maritime Commission
  • Acquired by the US Navy 11 August 1941
  • Commissioned USS Pleiades (AK-46), 25 October 1941
  • Decommissioned and returned to the Maritime Commission, 21 November 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission for lay up in 1946 in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, renamed Sceptre
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping in 1966
  • Pleiades (AK-46) earned two battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 8,185 t.
    Length 382' 2"
    Beam 50' 11"
    Draft 23'
    Speed 12 kts.
    Complement 42
    Armament two 3"guns
    Propulsion system unknown
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    Pleiades 108k Pleiades (AK-46) underway in Broad Sound, Boston, MA., 18 March 1943.
    US Navy photo # NH 97494 photo taken from an aircraft from NAS Squantum    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Pleiades 41k Pleiades (AK-46) underway in Broad Sound, Boston, MA., 18 March 1943.
    US Navy ONI photo    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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    Fleet Reserve Association
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