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USS Ocelot (IX-110)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Juliet - Foxtrot - Delta NJFD

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippine Liberation Medal

Built in 1919 as wooded-hulled SS Yomachichi by Doullet and Williams, Tampa, FL. for the United States Shipping Board (USSB)

Completed, 16 October 1919 and delivered to the USSB

Chartered to United States Lines, 11 March 1940, by the War Shipping Administration (WSA) at Baltimore, MD.

Accepted by the Navy under bare boat charter from the WSA, 2 October 1943

Converted to a barracks ship

Commissioned USS Ocelot (IX-110), 15 January 1944, LT. Milton S. Samuels in command

During World War II USS Ocelot was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater

Converted to a flagship for Service Squadron 10 at Pearl Harbor, in October 1944

Following World War II USS Ocelot was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 13 September to 6 December 1945

Lost due to grounding during "Typhoon Louise" at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, 9 October 1945

Read first person account by Y3/c B. J. Cunningham Jr. USNR USS Ocelot published in the "Grand Island Daily Independent" on September 25, 1945

Decommissioned 6 December 1945

Struck from the Naval Register, 3 January 1946

Returned the War Shipping Administration, 5 April 1946

Final Disposition, USS Ocelot's hulk was sold to China Merchants and Engineers Inc., for scrapping, 19 February 1948.

Specifications:
Displacement 5,868 t.(lt) 8,747 t.(fl) .
Length 416'
Beam 54'
Draft 18' 9"
Speed 13 kts

Total Accommodation

Officers 81

Enlisted 738

Armament

one single 3"/50 cal dual purpose gun mount

one single 40mm AA gun mount

eight single 20mm AA gun mounts

Fuel Capacity Diesel 12,600 Bbls

Propulsion

Busch Sulzer Brothers six cylinder (30in bore, 52in stroke), direct drive, air start - air injection cross-arm type Diesel engine
Ship's Service Generators
three Diesel-drive 100Kw 120.240V D.C.
three Diesel-drive 75Kw 340V D.C.

single propeller, 3000shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS Ocelot (IX-110)
094611013	111k	*Namesake* Ocelot - is a medium-sized spotted wild cat. It is native to the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central and South America, and to the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Margarita. It prefers areas close to water sources with dense vegetation cover and high prey availability.	Tommy Trampp
	109k	*USS Ocelot* (IX-110)** under way following conversion for naval service, 23 January 1944, in Chesapeake Bay off her conversion yard, Maryland Drydock Co., Baltimore, MD. US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, Photo No. Unknown, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com.	Mike Green
	121k	*USS Ocelot* (IX-110) under way off the Atlantic coast, 6 May 1944. Photographed by an aircraft from the Norfolk Naval Air Station. Ocelot** is painted in Measure 31 Design 9Ax camouflage. U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G, photo # 80-G-229574, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com.	Mike Green
	75k	*USS Ocelot* (IX-110)*, 6 May 1945, at San Pedro Bay, Leyte, just prior to be reassigned to Buckner Bay, Okinawa. Built in 1919, the former freighter was built under the World War I emergency shipbuilding program, and here is serving as Service Squadron 10 command flagship. She served in this duty from the end of 1944 to just before her loss at Okinawa in October 1945. The two masts over her amidships superstructure were probably added to support her command function. This photo appears to have been taken while the crew was airing bedding, note the mattresses hanging over the railings. The ship is painted in Measure 31 Design 9Ax camouflage. US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 89196*. Courtesy William H. Davis, 1979.	Photo - Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. / Caption - Mike Green
	78k	*USS Ocelot* (IX-110) aground in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, with her stern severed by USS Nestor (ARB-6)*, after Typhoon Louise ravaged that port in October 1945. Nestor's bow is in the center of this photo. Photographed in November 1945. After a desperate struggle to save their ship while not colliding with others, the crew of Nestor took refuge in USS APL-14, visible beyond her, against which her stern had been crushed. All three of these ships were stricken from the Navy List in January 1946 and sold in 1947-48. US Navy photo # NH 105655* from the US Naval History and Heritage Command, collection of Dr. Richard Raymond Gratton (1915-1990), donated by his daughter, Barbara Gratton Stillwater, 2008.	Marc Levine
	77k	*USS Ocelot* (IX-110) aground in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, after Typhoon Louise ravaged that port in October 1945. Photographed in November 1945. Her stern was cut off when USS Nestor (ARB-6)*, visible to the right, crashed into her during the storm. US Navy photo # NH 05658* from the US Naval History and Heritage Command, collection of Dr. Richard Raymond Gratton (1915-1990), donated by his daughter, Barbara Gratton Stillwater, 2008.	Marc Levine
	481k	*USS Ocelot* (IX-110) with USS Nestor (ARB-6) and YP-289 sunken alongside. Foreground is YF-776** and USS LCI(R)-337 , all either destroyed or run aground by Typhoon Louise at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, in October 1945. US Navy photo	Donn Cuson
	359k	The wrecks of *USS Ocelot* (IX-110) and USS Nestor (ARB-6)** at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, in October 1945. US Navy photo	Donn Cuson
	384k	The wrecks of *USS Ocelot* (IX-110), USS Nestor (ARB-6)** and USS APL-14 at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, in October 1945. Also note open lighter near Ocelot, an unidentified tug and LCI. US Navy photo	Donn Cuson
	182k	The wrecks of *USS Ocelot* (IX-110), USS Nestor (ARB-6) at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, in October 1945. Included in this series of photos are the unidentified sunken tug alongside Nestor, YF-776** and USS LCI(R)-337, all either destroyed or run aground by Typhoon Louise at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, in October 1945. US Navy photo	Donald Wilt for his grandfather Leo McCollam MoMM3/c USS Vandalia
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	360k	Personnel surveying the debris and the severely damaged *USS Ocelot* (IX-110) and USS Nestor (ARB-6)** caused by Typhoon Louise at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, in October 1945. US Navy photo	Mike Green
	203k	Looking forward from the starboard quarter, *USS Ocelot* (IX-110) is hard aground at Okinawa in October, 1945 after Typhoon Louise. Clearly evident is the fractured hull of Ocelot, severed by the bow of USS Nestor (ARB-6)**	Mike Green

USS Ocelot (IX-110)
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
MARAD Vessel History Data Base
WWII Navy Dentist (Blog by Linda Frumkes containing over 500 letters, photos and memorabilia of her father's, LT. Gilbert Steingart, USS Ocelot dentist)

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