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AKA-40 Scania


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Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Artemis Class Attack Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down, 6 January 1945, as a Maritime Commission type (S4-SE-2-BE1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1901), at Welsh-Kaiser Co. Providence, R.I.
  • Launched, 17 March 1945
  • Commissioned USS Scania (AKA-40), 16 April 1945, LCDR. Ben C. Gerwick, Jr., in command
  • Decommissioned, 2 September 1947, at San Francisco, CA.
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission, 2 September 1947, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 16 September 1947
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 18 July 1965, to Zidell Explorations Inc, Portland, OR.
    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 4,450 DWT
    Boats one LCP(L), twelve LCVP, eight LCM(3)
    Troop Accommodations 264
    Propulsion two turbo-electric engines, twin shafts, 6,000shp
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    Scania 71k Scania (AKA-40) commissioning ceremony at Walsh Kaiser Co., Inc., Providence, R.I., 16 April 1945. Charles Harden, Jr. MD in honor of his father Ens Charles Harden USS Scania, April to December 1945,
    Scania 59k Scania (AKA-40) entering port,date and place unknown. Charles Harden, Jr. MD in honor of his father Ens Charles Harden USS Scania, April to December 1945,
    Scania 144k Scania (AKA-40) at Shanghai, China, 24 March 1946, at approximately 1430 hours, while off-loading surplus equipment brought from Okinawa for the Chinese Government.
    Photo by Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class John M. Long, Jr., 1st Medical Battalion, 1st Marine Division, from the deck of APL-44, which was anchored in mid-stream off the city.
    US Navy photo # NH 99744 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, Courtesy of John M. Long, Jr., 2004.    		 US Navy Historical Center
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