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AS-26 Clytie

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, as a Maritime Commission, type (C3-S-A2) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 861) at Ingalls Shipbuilding Co., Pascagoula, MS.
  • Launched, 26 November 1943
  • Acquired by the Navy, 26 February 1944 and placed in temporary commission for passage to her conversion yard at Hoboken, N.J.
  • Decommissioned in March 1944 and turned over to Bethlehem Steel Corp., Hoboken, N.J.., for conversion to a Submarine Tender
  • Placed in full commission, as USS Clytie (AS-26), 18 January 1945
  • Decommissioned, 5 October 1946, at New London, CT.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, New London, CT.
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Fort Eustis, VA.
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1971
    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 dp gun mount, four 3"/50 guns, four 40mm guns, twenty 20mm guns
    Propulsion Geared Turbine
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    Clytie 72k Clytie (AS-26) underway during sea trials.
    Ingalls Shipbuilding photo, circa February 1944         		Courtesy Randy Guttery
    Tendertales Web Site
    Clytie 85k Clytie (AS-26) underway passing through the submarine boom defense netting at Fremantle, Australia, September 1945. Jack Treutle
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