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NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Smolinski

USS Muliphen (LKA-61)
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USS Muliphen (AKA-61) (1944 - 1969)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Hotel - Golf - Charlie
NHGC

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) - World War II Victory Medal
Bottom Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (3 Lebanon, 1Jul53-1Nov58)

Andromeda Class Attack Cargo Ship:

Laid down, 13 May 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-B1) hull, under a Maritime Commission contract at Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J.

Launched, 26 August 1944

Acquired by the Navy, 21 October 1944

Commissioned USS Muliphen (AKA-61), 23 October 1944, LCDR. Walter W. Williamson in command

During World War II USS Muliphen (AKA-61) participated in the following campaigns:

**Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns**
Campaigns and Dates	Campaigns and Dates
Iwo Jima operation Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima 19 February to 4 March 1945	Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto 1 to 10 April 1945

Redesignated (LKA-61), 1 January 1969

Decommissioned, 28 August 1970

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 January 1977

Returned to the Maritime Administration for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet

Final Disposition, sunk as an artificial reef 16.5 miles off Port St Lucie FL., January 1989. Sitting upright, at a depth of 168 feet

USS Muliphen received two battle stars for World War II service

Specifications:
Displacement 6,458 t.(lt) 14,200 t.(fl.);
Length 459' 2"
Beam 63'
Draft 26' 4"
Speed 16.5 kts.
Complement 429
Cargo Capacity 4,450 dwt
Armament

one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount

four twin 40mm AA gun mounts

twelve single 20mm AA gun mounts
Boats

14 LCVPs

1 LCP(L)

8 LCMs
Propulsion geared turbine, single screw, 6,000shp

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
72k	*USS Muliphen* (AKA-61)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo	Richard Leonhardt
70k	*USS Muliphen* (AKA-61)** underway, circa 1954 to 1957, location unknown.	Ronald L Wiant
77k	*USS Muliphen* (AKA-61)** underway, prior to 1964, location unknown. US Navy photo	Richard Leonhardt
148k	Painting *USS Muliphen* (AKA-61)**'s hull, date and location unknown. US Navy Photo from "All Hands" magazine August 1953.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
58k	*USS Muliphen* (AKA-61)** conducting amphibious exercises off NAB Little Creek, VA., August 1964	© Richard Leonhardt
54k	*USS Muliphen* (AKA-61)** underway in Hampton Roads, VA., July 1964	© Richard Leonhardt
103k	*US Muliphen* (AKA-61)** conducting amphibious exercises off NAB Little Creek, VA., August 1964	© Richard Leonhardt
50k	*USS Muliphen* (AKA-61)** conducting amphibious exercises off NAB, Little Creek, VA., July 1964	© Richard Leonhardt
123k	*USS Muliphen* (AKA-61)** moored pierside, NOB Norfolk, VA., July 1964	© Richard Leonhardt
88k	*USS Muliphen* (AKA-61)** anchored in Hampton Roads, VA., July 1964	© Richard Leonhardt
47k	*USS Muliphen* (AKA-61)** conducting amphibious exercises off NAB Little Creek, Va., July 1964	© Richard Leonhardt
73k	*USS Muliphen* (AKA-61)** underway, date and location unknown.	Russ Padden
376k	*USS Muliphen* (AKA-61)** in port, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands, January 1967.	Masao Aochi USS Muliphen, 1966-68
215k	*USS Muliphen* (AKA-61)** in port, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands, January 1967. Photo was taken from one of the ship's liberty boats.	Masao Aochi USS Muliphen, 1966-68