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AKA-76 Torrance

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 as a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-AJ3) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1382), at North Carolina Shipbuilding Corp, Wilmington, N.C.
  • Launched, 6 June 1944
  • Acquired by the Navy, 20 June 1944 and towed to Hoboken, N.J. for conversion to an Attack Cargo Ship
  • Commissioned USS Torrance (AKA-76), 18 November 1944 at Bethlehem Steel Co. Hoboken, N.J., LCDR.George A. Euerle, USNR, in command
  • During World War II Torrance was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the:
  • Decommissioned, 20 June 1946, at Norfolk, VA.
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission, 22 June 1946, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet James River. Fort Eustis, VA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 3 July 1946
  • Sold in 1948, for commercial service, to Alcoa Steamship Co., New York, NY, renamed SS Alcoa Roamer
  • Sold to Clairship Navigation Corp., New York, NY in 1968 and renamed SS Eldorado
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1972
  • Torrance received one battle star for her 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 single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    four twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    sixteen single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Boats
    fourteen LCVPs
    eight LCMs
    Cargo Capacity 380,000 cu ft, (5,275 t.)
    Propulsion GE geared turbine drive, single propeller, 6,000shp
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    Torrance 62k Torrance (AKA-76) anchored at Saipan, circa 5 to 22 May 1945. Brian Anderson for his grandfather, Clarence Russell "Russ" Anderson MoMM 3/c USNR USS Torrance
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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