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APV-2 / AKV-2 Hammondsport

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Bravo - Oscar - Whiskey
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Defense Service Medal
Bottom Row American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Kitty Hawk Class Aviation Transport:
  • Laid down, 20 January 1932, as SS Seatrain Havana for the Seatrain Lines at Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Chester, PA.
  • Launched, 26 September 1932
  • Acquired by the Navy and commissioned as Transport and Aircraft Ferry, USS Hammondsport (APV-2), 11 December 1941, CDR. P. B. Glutting in command
  • Designation changed to Aircraft Transport (AKV-2), 15 September 1943
  • Decommissioned, 7 March 1946, at Philadelphia, PA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal
  • Resold to Seatrain Lines, 10 May 1946, name reverted to Seatrain Havana
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 4,000 t.(lt), 16,480 t.(fl)
    Length 478'
    Beam 63' 6"
    Draft 26' 3"
    Speed 16 kts.
    Complement 255
    Armament one 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, four 3"/50 guns
    Propulsion steam turbine, single propeller, 8,800shp
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    Ballard 200k From bottom to top; Ballard (AVD-10), Hammondsport (APV-2), Vestal (AR-4) and a garbage lighter (YG) surrounded by anti-submarine nets at Pearl Harbor, 12 July 1942.
    US Navy photo # NH 84001, courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Forrestal Collection    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Hammondsport 29k Hammondsport (AKV-2) underway, circa 1943, place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Hammondsport 38k Hammondsport (AKV-2) at anchor, in San Francisco Bay, 2 October 1944.
    US Navy photo from DANFS.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Hammondsport 34k Hammondsport (AKV-2) moored pierside, date and place unknown. Robert Hurst
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    DANFS history entry located the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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