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AKA-71 Todd


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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
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Liberation Medal
Tolland Class Attack Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down, 10 August 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-AJ3) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1400), at North Carolina Shipbuilding Corp, Wilmington, N.C.
  • Launched, 10 October 1944
  • Delivered to the Navy by the Maritime Commission, 14 November 1944
  • Commissioned USS Todd (AKA-71), 30 November 1944, LCDR. Charles A. Johnson, USNR, in command
  • During World War II Todd was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater
  • Following World War II Todd performed occupation duty in the Far East
  • Decommissioned, 25 June 1946, at Norfolk VA.
  • Returned to Maritime Commission, 26 June 1946, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall, VA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register 19 July 1946
  • Commercial Service
    Sold to Oceanic SS Co., 26 September 1947, renamed SS Ventura
    Sold by Oceanic SS Co, 25 March 1961, to Matson Navigation Co., renamed SS Hawaiian Wholesaler
    Sold by Matson Navigation Co., 20 July 1961, to Sea-Land Service Inc., renamed SS Chatham, leased to Waterman SS. Corp.
    Title transferred to Maritime Administration as part of the MARAD Exchange Program, 13 May 1965
    Returned to the Maritime Administration, 18 August 1966 and transferred to Waterman Steamship Co., as part of the MARAD Exchange Program
    Sold by MARAD, 15 May 1969, to Gatx/Boothe Corp.
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 22 February 1972, to Sing Cheng Yung Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., Taiwan
    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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    Todd 69k Ex-Todd (AKA-71) in commercial service as the Waterman SS. Corp. SS Chatham moored pierside at Bremerhaven, Germany in March 1965. Photo Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    Todd 65k SS Chatham working cargo while moored pierside at Bremerhaven, Germany in March 1965. Photo Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    Todd 67k SS Chatham moored pierside at Bremerhaven, Germany in September 1968. Photo Gerhard Mueller-Debus
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