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AKA-22 Athene

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2)
Bottom Row- World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Liberation Medal (1)
Artemis Class Attack Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down, 20 January 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (S4-SE2-BE1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1883), at Welsh-Kaiser Co. Providence, R.I.
  • Launched 18 June 1944
  • Commissioned USS Athene (AKA-22), 29 September 1944
  • Decommissioned 17 June 1946, at Pearl Harbor T.H.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 August 1947
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration for disposal
  • Final Disposition sold for scrapping in 1960 to Union Minerals and Alloys Corp., New York N.Y.
  • Athene earned two battle stars for her World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 4,087 t.(lt) 7,080 t.(fl)
    Length 426'
    Beam 58'
    Draft 16' 5"
    Speed 16.9 kts.
    Complement 303
    Armament one 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, four twin 40mm AA gun mounts, ten single 20mm AA guns
    Cargo Capacity 4,450 DWT
    Boats one LCP(L) twelve LCVP, eight LCM(3)
    Troop Accommodations 264
    Propulsion two turbo-electric engines, twin propellers, 6,000shp
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    Athene 80k Athene (AKA-22) underway in San Francisco Bay, circa 1945-46.
    US Navy photo from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 Jean Baptie Morrison for her brother Norval C. Baptie, Watertender, USS Athene
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    DANFS history entry located on the Hazegray & Underway Web Site.
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
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