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ARG-12 / AG-68 Basilan

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Liberation Medal
Basilan Class Miscellaneous Auxiliary
  • Projected as Internal Combustion Engine Repair Ship (ARG-12)
  • Laid down, 5 February 1944, as SS Jacques Phillipe Villere, a Maritime Commission type (EC-2-S-C1) hull under a Maritime Commission contract (MCE hull 2460) at Delta Shipbuilding Corp., New Orleans, LA.
  • Redesignated Miscellaneous Auxiliary (AG-68)
  • Launched, 21 March 1944
  • Acquired by the Navy, 21 April 1944, from the Maritime Commission
  • Converted to a Miscellaneous Auxiliary at Waterman Steamship Co., Mobile AL.
  • Commissioned USS Basilan (AG-68), 10 October 1944, Lcdr. Lawrence A. Parks, USNR, in command
  • Decommissioned, 22 April 1946, at Pearl Harbor, T.H.
  • Towed to Drake's Bay, CA. and turned over the Maritime Commission, 14 May 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 28 May 1947
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
  • Final Disposition, sold, 12 June 1972, to Zidell Explorations, Inc., for scrapping
    Specifications:
    Displacement 5,371 t.(lt) 14,200 t.(fl)
    Length 442'
    Beam 57'
    Draft 23'
    Speed 13 kts.
    Complement 181
    Armament
    one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    four 40mm AA gun mounts
    twelve single 20mm AA gun mounts
  • Propulsion reciprocating steam engine, single shaft, 1,950hp
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