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USS Pelias (AS-14)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Bravo - Charlie - Papa
 NBCP
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941) - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal
Griffin Class Submarine Tender:
  • Laid down, 8 May 1939, as MV Mormacyork, a Maritime Commission type (C3) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 45), at Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, Co., Chester, PA.
  • Launched, 14 November 1939
  • Acquired by the Navy in 1940
  • Converted to a Submarine Tender at Bethlehem Steel Co., Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Commissioned USS Pelias (AS-14), 5 September 1941, at New York. CDR. William Wakefield in command
  • Pelias was at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941
  • Reduced status to In Commission in Reserve, 6 September 1946, at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.
  • Reduced status to In Service in Reserve, 1 February 1947
  • Reduced status to Out of service in Reserve, 21 October 1950
  • Decommissioned, 14 June 1970, at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 August 1972
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, 1 October 1973
  • Pelias received one battle star for World War 11 service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 8,613 t.(lt) 14,000 t.(fl)
    Length 492'
    Beam 69' 6"
    Draft 21' 1"
    Speed 16.5 kts.
    Complement 925
    Armament
    one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount
    four .50 cal machine guns
    Propulsion diesel engine 8,500shp, single propeller
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    Pelias 25k USS Pelias (AS-14) underway, date and location unknown.
    Note Pelias is painted Camouflage Measure 32, Design 10Ax.    		 Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
    Pelias 48k USS Pelias (AS-14) at anchor, location unknown, 1942.
    US Navy photo         		Courtesy Randy Guttery
    Tendertales Web Site
    Pelias 220k Overhead view of: front to back,
    USS Griffin (AS-13),
    USS Euryale (AS-22),
    USS Aegir (AS-23), and
    Pelias (AS-14) moored in the Reserve Fleet, at Mare Island Navy Shipyard, Vallejo, CA. with 52 mothballed World War II submarines, circa 1946     		Darryl Baker
    George Eastman 193k Ships in reserve at Mare Island, Vallejo, CA. in 1967. From left to right:
    USS Carmick (DD-493,
    USS Stafford (DE-411),
    Unidentified Non Self-propelled Barracks Ship (APL)
    USS Pelias (AS-14)
    USS George Eastman (YAG-39)
    Unidentified Destroyer or Destroyer Escort and two unidentified Self-propelled Oil Barges YOs.    		 ©Richard Leonhardt
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Submarine Tenders of the United States Navy
    Pearl Harbor Action Report
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