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Contributed by Don McGrogan, BMCS, USN Ret.

USS Rainbow (AS-7)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
Philippines Campaign Medal - World War I Victory Medal (with Atlantic Fleet clasp)
  • Built in 1890 as SS Norse King, at James Laing, Sunderland, England
  • Acquired by the US Navy 29 June 1898
  • Converted to a distilling ship at New York Navy Yard
  • Commissioned USS Rainbow, 2 December 1901, CDR. S. A. Stanton in command
  • Decommissioned, 24 December 1914, at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.
  • Recommissioned, 29 January 1916
  • Converted to a Submarine Tender at Mare Island Navy Yard, 12 December 1917 to 2 April 1918
  • Designated (AS-7), 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned, 11 July 1925, at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 26 June 1928
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 13 September 1928, to Boston Iron Works, Baltimore, MD.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 4,360 t.
    Length 325' 9"
    Beam 41' 1"
    Draft 17' 8"
    Speed 12 kts.
    Complement 55
    Armament
    six 6-pdrs
    six 1-pdrs
    Propulsion coal fired steam turbine, single shaft
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    Rainbow 59k USS Rainbow underway in New York harbor, circa 1902. Robert Hurst
    Rainbow 38k AZO Real Photo Postcard of USS Rainbow pierside in China, date and location unknown. .
    Rainbow 46k USS Rainbow (AS-7) underway, date and location unknown.
    Photo from "Jane's All The World's Fighting Ships 1924".    		 Robert Hurst
    Rainbow 80k USS Rainbow (AS-7) pierside while coaling in 1924, location unknown..
    US Navy photo.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret
    Rainbow 344k USS Rainbow (AS-7) coaling ship at Cavite, Luzon, Philippine Islands, date unknown. Courtesy James and John Gholson for there father James E. Gholson S2/c USN USS Rainbow
    Rainbow 47k USS Rainbow (AS-7) at anchor while tending submarines, date and location unknown Ric Hedman
    Rainbow 231k USS Rainbow (AS-7) and an unidentified auxiliary moored pierside with submarines USS H2 (SS-29)and USS H3 (SS-30) moored forward of Rainbow, date and location unknown Rick Larson MMCM(SS) Ret.
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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