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AS-23 Aegir

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic- Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Aegir Class Submarine Tender:
  • Laid down, 31 March 1943, as a Maritime Commission, type (C3-S-A2) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 856) at Ingalls Shipbuilding Co., Pascagoula, MS.
  • Launched, 15 September 1943
  • Acquired by the US Navy, 20 November 1943 and placed in temporary commission for passage to her conversion yard
  • Decommissioned, 3 December 1943 and turned over to Todd Ship Yards Corp., Brooklyn, N.Y. for conversion to a Submarine Tender
  • Recommissioned USS Aegir (AS-23), 8 September 1944
  • Decommissioned, 18 October 1946, and placed in reserve at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 June 1971
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for disposal
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 16 May 1972 to the National Metal & Steel Co., Terminal Island, CA.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 16,500 t.(fl)
    Length 492' 6"
    Beam 69' 6"
    Draft 27'
    Speed 18.4 kts.
    Complement 1,460
    Armament one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, four 3"/50 guns, four 40mm guns, twenty 20mm guns
    Propulsion geared turbine, single propeller
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    Aegir 79k Aegir (AS-23) undergoing sea trials.
    Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., photo         		Courtesy Randy Guttery
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    Griffin (AS-13),
    Euryale (AS-22),
    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
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