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AKA-25 Circe

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Medal (with Asia Clasp)
Artemis Class Attack Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down as a Maritime Commission type (S4-SE2-BE1) hull, under a Maritime Commission contract, at Welsh-Kaiser Co., Providence, R.I.
  • Launched, 4 August 1944
  • Commissioned USS Circe (AKA-25), 10 November 1944
  • Decommissioned, 20 May 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown)
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission, 26 June 1946, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • Circe received one battle star for 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 dual 40mm gun mounts, ten single 20mm gun mounts
    Cargo capacity 4,450DWT
    Boats one LCP(L), twelve LCVP, eight LCM(3)
    Troop Capacity 264
    Propulsion two turbo-electric engines, twin shafts, 6,000shp.
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    Circe 21k Circe (AKA-25) at anchor, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Tony Justice, for his father Glenard Justice USS Circe Coxswain 1943-46
    Circe 93k Circe (AKA-25) boat division crew photo. Glenard Justice is in the back row squatting, just in front of the third standing man from the right. Tony Justice, for his father Glenard Justice USS Circe Coxswain 1943-46
    Circe 118k Circe (AKA-25) ship's office staff, March 1945.
    From left to right: sitting; E.F. Conley, Y2/c; L.E. LaSure Y3/c; standing: L.J. Wright, CY; R.P. Nagle, Y1/c; and W. Faria, Y2c.    		 Bill Faria Y2/c USS Circe
    View the Circe (AKA-25)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    View a personnel perspective of USS Circe's history during World War II by crew member Edward F. Tamas MM3/c
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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