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AKA-70 Tate


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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 (1)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Liberation Medal
Tolland Class Attack Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down, 22 July 1944, as a Maritime Commission hull (C2-S-AJ3) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1396), at North Carolina Shipbuilding Corp, Wilmington, N.C.
  • Launched, 26 September 1944
  • Acquired by the US Navy, 3 November 1944
  • Commissioned USS Tate (AKA-70), 25 November 1944, at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, S.C., LCDR. William Jordan, USNR, in command
  • During World War II Tate was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the:
  • Decommissioned, 10 July 1946, at Norfolk, VA.
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission, 13 July 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 19 July 1946
  • Commercial History
    Sold, circa 1946-1948, to Luckenbach Steamship Co., NY, renamed SS Julia Luckenbach
    Resold to States Marine Lines (date unknown) renamed SS Bay State
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • Tate was awarded one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 8,635 t.(lt) 13,910 t.(fl)
    Length 459' 2"
    Beam 63'
    Draft 26' 4"
    Speed 16.5 kts.
    Complement
    Officers 62
    Enlisted 333
    Armament
    one 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    four twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    sixteen single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Boats
    fourteen LCVP
    eight LCM
    Cargo Capacity 380,000 cu ft, (5,275 t.)
    Propulsion General Electric geared turbine drive, single propeller, 6,000shp
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    Commercial Service
    Tate 64k ex-Tate (AKA-70) in commercial service as the States Marine Lines SS Bay State moored pierside at Bremerhaven, Germany in June, 1967. Photo Gerhard Mueller-Debus
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