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AKA-27 Devosa

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Artemis Class Attack Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down (date unknown) as a Maritime Commission type (S4-SE2-BE1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1888) at Welsh-Kaiser Co., Providence, R.I.
  • Launched, 12 October 1944
  • Acquired by the US Navy and commissioned USS Devosa (AKA-27), 30 November 1944
  • Decommissioned, 2 April 1946, at New York, N.Y and transferred to the US Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y. as a training vessel, renamed Kings Pointer
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission in late 1946 for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet Final Disposition, scrapped in 1966
  • Devosa 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 single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, four twin 40mm gun mounts, ten single 20mm gun mounts
    Boats 12 LCVP, 2 LCM(3)
    Troop Accommodations 264
    Propulsion twin turbo-electric engines, two boilers, twin shafts, 6,600shp
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    Devosa 114k Devosa (AKA-27), 1945, place unknown. Mell Nelson YN3, USN
    Member Admiral Jonas Ingram's staff during WWII
    View the Devosa (AKA-27)
    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
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