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ID-1536 / AP-24 Orizaba

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Uniform - Bravo - Yankee NUBY

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, 11 July 1943)
Second Row - World War I Victory Medal (with Transport clasp) - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal
Third Row - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (1) - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

USS Orizaba served twice briefly as USAT Orizaba, ultimately transferred to Brazil in 1945, renamed Duque de Caxis (U-11)

Laid down in 1918 as SS Orizaba at William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Co., Philadelphia, PA.

Acquired by the Navy from New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Co., 11 April 1918

Commissioned, USS Orizaba (SP-1536), 27 May 1918, CDR. Richard D. White in command

Decommissioned, 4 September 1919

Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)

Turned over to the War Department for use as a transport, later returned to New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Co.

Reacquired by the War Department in early 1941

Transferred to the US Navy, 4 June 1941

Commissioned USS Orizaba (AP-24), 15 June 1941

Decommissioned, 23 April 1945

Transferred to Brazil under the Lend Lease Program, 16 July 1945, renamed Duque de Caxis (U-11)

Permanently transferred to Brazil under the Military Assistance Program in June 1953

Struck from the Naval Register, 20 July 1953

Struck from the Brazilian Navy in 1960

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Orizaba (AP-24) earned one battle star for World War II service

Specifications:
Displacement 11,293 t.
Length 443' 3"
Beam 60'
Draft 24' 4"
Speed 16.5 kts.
Complement 323
Troop Accommodations 2,928
Armament

(1918) four single 5" gun mounts, two 1-pdrs

(1941) two single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts

four single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts
Propulsion steam turbine

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Orizaba (ID-1536)
	41k	Orizaba (ID-1536) probably photographed just before completion, at William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Co., yard, Philadelphia, PA., circa April 1918. Note her pattern camouflage and wartime rig of a single mast amidships. US Navy photo # NH 101700.	US Naval Historical Center
	112k	Orizaba (ID-1536) leaving her New York City slip and going down the North River, bound for France in 1918. Note her pattern camouflage scheme. US Navy photo # NH 44914.	US Naval Historical Center
	72k	Orizaba (ID-1536) leaving her New York City slip and going down the North River, bound for France in 1918. Note her pattern camouflage scheme, tugs assisting her, and ferryboat in the left background. US Navy photo # NH 44915.	US Naval Historical Center
	97k	Halftone reproduction of a photograph of Orizaba (ID-1536) taken in 1918, showing the ship in port. The original image was published in 1918-1919 as one of ten photographs in a "Souvenir Folder" of views concerning USS Orizaba. US Navy photo # NH 76047 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, Donation of W.R. Koger, 1972.	US Naval Historical Center
	77k	Orizaba (ID-1536) in a U.S. East Coast port, 1919. The original photograph is printed on postal card ("AZO") stock. US Navy photo # NH 102946 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005.	US Naval Historical Center
USAT Orizaba
	54k	Halftone reproduction of a photo of USAT Orizaba taken in 1941, during the ship's brief service as a U.S. Army Transport. Copied from the book "Troopships of World War II", by Roland W. Charles. US Navy photo # NH 103119 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
USS Orizaba (AP-24)
	147k	Orizaba (AP-24) at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA., while undergoing conversion for Naval service, 29 September 1941. The ship in the foreground is Relief (AH-1). Note the details of *Relief's bridge, and the illuminated hospital ship recognition cross just forward of and above the spread awning (in the right center). An oiler and the sludge removal barge YSR-1* are in the upper right, with two old "flush deck" destroyers beyond. US National Archives photo # 19-N-26136, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives	US Naval Historical Center
	61k	Orizaba (AP-24) off Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 29 October 1941. She appears to be painted in Camouflage Measure 12 (Graded System). US National Archives photo # 19-N-25782, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.	US Naval Historical Center
	88k	Orizaba (AP-24) foreground, steams in convoy with other troopships and an oiler, in the Atlantic Ocean, 27 July 1943. US National Archives photo # 80-G-54532, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.	US Naval Historical Center
	146k	Orizaba (AP-24) underway at sea, circa 1944. The ship is painted in Camouflage Measure 32, Design 11F. US Navy photo # NH 66876 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, Courtesy of the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia. Ted Stone Collection.	US Naval Historical Center
	29k	Orizaba (AP-24) underway, date and place unknown.	Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
Duque de Caxis (U-11)
	53k	ex-Orizaba (AP-24) in Brazilian service as Duque de Caxis (U-11) in port, circa the 1950s. US Navy photo # NH 59786 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
	61k	ex-Orizaba (AP-24) in Brazilian service as Duque de Caxis (U-11) in port, circa the 1950s. US Navy photo # NH 59786 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center