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FS-263
AG-131 / AKL-2 Deal


USS Deal (AKL-2) previously served as USAT FS-263
Camano Class Light Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down in 1944 as FS-263 for the US Army at Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp., Whitestone, Long Island, N.Y.
  • Delivered to the US Army Transportation Service (date unknown)
  • Acquired by the US Navy, 2 March 1947, at Apra, Guam
  • Commissioned, Miscellaneous Auxiliary, USS Deal (AG-131), 3 August 1947
  • Reclassified Light Cargo Ship, (AKL-2), 31 March 1949
  • Decommissioned, 8 September 1955, at Portland, OR.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group, Astoria, OR.
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Sold, 18 December 1961
  • Deal's career after Naval service included operation's off the coast of England as a pirate radio station as M/V Olga Patricia and M/V Laissez Faire
  • Current Disposition, as the commercial fishing vessel F/V Earl J. Conrad, Jr. (USCG Doc. No. 547733) operating out of Reedville, VA.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 550 t.
    Length 177'
    Beam 33'
    Draft 10'
    Speed 12 kts.
    Complement 42
    Propulsion two 500hp GM Cleveland Division 6-278A 6-cyl V6 diesel engines, twin screws
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    Deal 57k Ex-Deal (AKL-2) as the M/V Olga Patricia moored pierside at Miami, FL. in 1966. Svenn Martinsen
    Deal 65k M/V Olga Patricia operating as a pirate radio station off the coast of England in 1966. Svenn Martinsen
    Deal 86k Ex-Deal (AKL-2) renamed M/V Laissez Faire operating as pirate radio station off the coast of England in 1967. Svenn Martinsen
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
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    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    "A Radio Rose of Texas, The 5 of the 'Olga Patricia'"
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