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AG-10 / AKS-3 Antares

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (2-7 December 1941, 25 June 1945)
Second Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal
Third Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Antares Class Miscellaneous Auxiliary:
  • Laid down, 3 July 1917, as Nedmac, under a United States Shipping Board (USSB) contract at American International Ship Building Corp.
  • Launched, 30 May 1919
  • Delivered to the USSB, 26 July 1919
  • Acquired by the Navy, 14 November 1921
  • Commissioned USS Antares (AG-10), 23 February 1922 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA., LCDR. Howard E. Pinkham, USNRF, in command
  • Reclassified General Stores Ship (AKS-3), 30 November 1940
  • Decommissioned, 2 August 1946 at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Vessel Register, 25 September 1946
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 18 September 1947, to Kaiser and Co.1947
  • Antares earned one battle star at Pearl Harbor and a second battle star for Okinawa
    Specifications:
    Displacement 11,450 t.
    Length 401'
    Beam 54'
    Draft 24' 5"
    Speed 11.5 kts. Complement 197
    Armament two 5", four 3", 2 6-pdrs (authorized but not installed at time of commissioning), after 1941, two 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts, four 3"/50 guns, eight 20mm gun mounts
    Propulsion system unknown
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    Antares 68k Antares (AG-10) at anchor, date and location unknown. Jon Burdett
    Antares 42k Antares (AG-10) underway with a tug alongside, circa 1924, location unknown. Robert Hurst
    Antares 60k Antares (AG-10) postal cover commemorating her fourteen year of commissioned service. Jon Burdett
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Antares (AKS-3) Pearl Harbor Action Report US Naval Historical Center
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