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USS Wolverine (IX-64)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Whiskey - Mike - November
 NWMN
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Training Aircraft Carrier:
  • SS Seeandbee a side-wheel excursion steamer built in 1913 at American Shipbuilding Co., Wyandotte, MI.
  • Acquired by the Navy, 12 March 1942
  • Converted to a training aircraft carrier
  • Commissioned USS Wolverine (IX-64), 12 August 1942, at Buffalo, N.Y., CDR. George R. Fairlamb in command
  • Decommissioned, 7 November 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register 28 November 1945
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping in 21 November 1947 at Cleveland, OH. to A. F. Wagner Iron Works
    Specifications:
    Displacement 7,200 t.
    Length 500'
    Beam 98'
    Draft 15' 6"
    Speed 28 kts.
    Complement 270
    Armament none
    Propulsion
    two compound reciprocating engines
    twelve coal fired Scotch boilers
    Ship's Service Generators
    three recip-drive 75Kw 120V D.C.
    one recip-drive 100Kw 120V D.C.
    two sidewheels, 8000hp
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    Wolverine 174k Post Card image of the side-wheel steamer Seeandbee prior to WWII Tommy Trampp
    Wolverine 77k Side-wheel steamer Seeandbee prior to WWII Haze Gray & Underway
    USS Wolverine (IX-64)
    Wolverine 57k USS Wolverine (IX-64) moored, date and location unknown. Haze Gray & Underway web site
    Wolverine 351k USS Wolverine (IX-64) underway in Chicago harbor, 22 August 1942.
    Credits: "Navy Yearbook", Ed. by Phillip Andrews and Leonard Engel; Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1944     		Derick S. Hartshorn
    Wolverine 308k USS Wolverine (IX-64) lying at anchor in Lake Michigan on 6 April 1943. The black structure on the port side does not belong to the ship.
    US Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo # 1996.488.019.009.    		 Robert Hurst
    Wolverine 60k USS Wolverine (IX-64) and USS Sable (IX-81) moored at Chicago, IL. date unknown. Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Wolverine 81k USS Wolverine (IX-64) underway in Lake Michigan, date unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine April 1960    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Wolverine 43k USS Wolverine (IX-64) underway in Lake Michigan, date unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine April 1960. The arrow points to the paddle wheel.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Wolverine 43k USS Wolverine (IX-64) underway in Lake Michigan, date unknown.
    US Navy    		 Robert Hurst
    Wolverine 29k USS Wolverine (IX-64) underway in Lake Michigan, date unknown.
    US Navy    		 Robert Hurst
    Wolverine 149k USS Wolverine (IX-64) underway in Lake Michigan, date unknown.
    Photo from the collection of Ralph Matteson.    		 David Briedis
    Wolverine 2027k USS Wolverine (IX-64) and USS Sable (IX-81) newspaper articles. Ron Reeves
    USS Wolverine (IX-64)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History and Heritage Command
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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