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AO-15 Kaweah


Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Defense Medal (with Fleet clasp)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal


Kaweah Class Fleet Oiler:
  • Laid down (date unknown) under a United States Shipping Board (USSB) contact at William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Launched in 1919
  • Acquired from the USSB, 20 October 1921
  • Commissioned USS Kaweah (AO-15), 28 December 1921, LCDR. O. Beuilagua, USNRF, in command
  • Decommissioned, 15 August 1922, at Norfolk, VA.
  • Laid up in the Reserve Fleet
  • Recommissioned, 16 December 1940
  • Decommissioned, 16 November 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration, 28 May 1946, for disposal
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, MD.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 4,410 t.(lt) 14,450 t.(fl)
    Length 446'
    Beam 58' 2"'
    Draft 25' 6"
    Speed 11 kts.
    Complement 252
    Armament two 5" two 3", 2 .50 cal mgs.
    Propulsion reciprocating steam engine, single shaft, 2,800shp

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