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AKS-6 Kochab

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Acubens Class General Stores Issue Ship:
  • Laid down (date unknown) as a Maritime Commission type (EC2-S-C1) hull, under a Maritime Commission contract at Delta Shipbuilding Co., New Orleans, LA.
  • Launched, 8 March 1944
  • Converted to a General Stores Issue Ship at Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co., Mobile AL.
  • Commissioned USS Kochab (AKS-6), 5 May 1944, at Mobile, AL.
  • Decommissioned, 17 April 1946, at Peal Harbor, T.H.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Pearl Harbor
  • Transferred under tow to San Francisco, 28 September 1947
  • Struck from the Naval Register and turned over to the Maritime Commission, 22 October 1947, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 14 January 1965, to Nicolas Joffe Corp., Beverly Hills, CA.
  • Kochab received one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 4,023 t.(lt) 14,350 t.(fl)
    Length 441' 7"
    Beam 56' 11"
    Draft 27' 7"
    Speed 11 kts.
    Complement 195
    Armament one 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, eight single 20mm gun mounts
    Propulsion reciprocating steam engine, single shaft, 2,500hp
    Cruising radius 17,000 miles

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    Kochab 38k Kochab (AKS-6) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
    Kochab 87k Kochab (AKS-6) at anchor, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from DANFS.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Crittenden 127k Operation Crossroads prospective target ships and support ships at Pearl Harbor in a photo released, 27 February 1946.
    Ships present from front to rear include Crittenden (APA-77), Catron (APA-71), Bracken (APA-64), Burleson (APA-67), Gilliam (APA-57), Fallon (APA-81), one unidentified ship, Fillmore (APA-83), Kochab (AKS-6), Luna (AKS-7) and an unidentified tanker and liberty ship. Identifiable on the right are LSM-203 and LSM-465. Further in the background are a floating drydock and a merchant ship hulk with unidentified fittings forward of the bridge.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-702126 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
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    DANFS     history entry located on the at Navsource.
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
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