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USS Alamance (AKA-75)


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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
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Tolland Class Attack Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down, 15 September 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-AJ3) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1405), at North Carolina Shipbuilding Corp, Wilmington, N.C.
  • Launched, 11 November 1944
  • Commissioned USS Alamance (AKA-75), 22 December 1944, CDR. Otto John Stein in command
  • Decommissioned, 25 June 1946, Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 19 July 1946 and returned to the Maritime Commission
  • Sold for commercial service in 1947 to Prudential Line Shipping Co. renamed SS Southstar
  • Sold in 1961, renamed SS American Supplier,
  • Sold in 1963, renamed SS Alcoa Voyager,
  • Sold in 1969, renamed SS Columbia Fox,
  • Sold in 1971, renamed SS Antillian Fox
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1971 at 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 single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    four twin 40 mm AA gun mounts
    sixteen single 20 mm AA gun mounts
    Boats
    fourteen LCVP
    eight LCM
    Cargo Capacity 380,000 cu ft, (5,275 t.)
    Propulsion GE geared turbine drive, single propeller, 6,000shp
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    Alamance 33k Bow on view of USS Alamance (AKA-75) underway on the Cooper River off Charleston S.C, 15 January 1945.US Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. photo #159-45. Robert Hall
    Alamance 85k USS Alamance (AKA-75) moored pierside, date and location unknown. Bob Denninger WT3/c USN, Alamance>i> January 1945 to May 1946
    Alamance 41k USS Alamance (AKA-75) at anchor with boats alongside, date and location unknown. .
    Grafton 54k USS Alamance (AKA-75), at left, and USS Grafton (APA-109), at right, moored pierside at Sasebo, Japan, 1945 Submitted by John Dupre' for his father-in-law Edmund H. Cokely EMC USN Asst Electrical Officer USS Grafton.
    Commercial Service
    Alamance 33k Ex-USS Alamance (AKA-75) underway while in commercial service as Prudential Line Shipping Co.'s SS Southstar, circa 1947-61. Hyperwar US Navy in World War II
    Alamance 89k SS Southstar berthed at Bremen, Germany, early Fifties. Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    Alamance 40k SS American Supplier leaving Bremen, Germany, March 1962. Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    Alamance 79k SS Alcoa Voyager at Bremerhaven, Germany, April 1967. Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
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