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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

AV-9 Pocomoke

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - November - Foxtrot NANF

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal

Pocomoke Class Seaplane Tender:

Laid down, 14 August 1939, as SS Exchequer, a Maritime Commission type (C3) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 64) at Ingalls Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Pascagoula, MS.

Launched, 8 June 1940

Acquired by the US Navy, 16 October 1940

Commissioned USS Pocomoke (AV-9), 18 July 1941, CDR. L. T. Hundt in command

Decommissioned, 10 July 1946, at Philadelphia, PA.

Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Philadelphia Group

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 June 1961

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 12 December 1961, to Union Minerals and Alloys Corp

Pocomoke received two battle stars for World War II Service

Specifications:
Displacement 8,950 t.
Length 492'
Beam 69' 6"
Draft 21' 2"
Speed 17 kts.
Complement 689
Armament

one single 5"/38 DP gun mount

four single 3"/50 DP gun mounts
Propulsion steam turbine, single shaft, 8,500hp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
Pre-War Commercial Service (AP-61)
	60k	American Export Line's SS Exchequer underway, circa 1960, location unknown.	Robert Hurst
USS Pokomoke (AV-9)
	71k	Pocomoke (AV-9) underway apparently during acceptance trials circa late 1940-early 1941. Note the absence of guns and the incomplete aft crane assembly. US Navy photo	Ron Titus
	65k	Pocomoke (AV-9) underway, date and place unknown. US Navy photo	Haze & Underway web site
	38k	Pocomoke (AV-9) lifting a P5 Mariner onto her maintenance deck US Navy photo	.
	32k	Pocomoke (AV-9) underway, date and place unknown. US Navy photo	Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
	58k	Pocomoke (AV-9) underway, 3 February 1943, place unknown. Note that her maintenance deck is crowded with single engine fighters. US Navy photo	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
	57k	Pocomoke (AV-9) (stern view) at anchor off San Francisco, 6 May 1943. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 3305-43.	Darryl Baker
	76k	Pocomoke (AV-9) (broadside view) at anchor off San Francisco, 6 May 1943. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 3309-43.	Darryl Baker
	63k	Pocomoke (AV-9) (bows on view) at anchor off San Francisco, 6 May 1943. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 3593-43.	Darryl Baker
	124k	Amidship looking aft plan view of Pocomoke (AV-9) at Navy Yard Mare Island, 17 January 1945. The yard dredge Endicott (YM-12) is aft of *Pocomoke* while a self-propelled covered lighter (possibly one of the 220 footers which were numbered YF-1054 to YF-1078) is at the opposite side of the next pier. The barracks ship *YHB-2* (ex Port of Stockton) is in the far background. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 443-45.	Darryl Baker
	164k	Amidship looking forward plan view of Pocomoke (AV-9) at Navy Yard Mare Island, 17 January 1945. *Pokomoke* was in overhaul at Mare Island from 16 December 1944 to 22 January 1945. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 446-45.	Darryl Baker