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USS Trego (AKA-78)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Hotel - Kilo - Xray
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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 (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Tolland Class Attack Cargo Ship
  • Laid down, 14 April 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-AJ3) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1384), at North Carolina Shipbuilding Corp. Wilmington, N.C.
  • Launched, 20 June 1944
  • Delivered to the Maritime Commission, 4 July 1944, transferred to the US Navy the same day
  • Commissioned USS Trego (AKA-78), 21 December, 1944, LCDR. James F. Hunnewell, USNR, in command
  • During World War II USS Trego was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaign:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates
    Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 3 to 11 June 1945
  • Decommissioned, 21 May 1946, at Norfolk, VA.
  • Returned to the War Shipping Administration (WSA(, 22 May 1946 for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall, VA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 5 June 1946
  • Commercial Service
    Sold by the Maritime Commission in 1946, to Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. Inc. in 1946
    Withdrawn from the James River Reserve Fleet, 27 January 1947, for towing to Mobile AL, by Moran Towing & Transportation Co.
    Turned over to Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., at Mobile, AL., 9 July 1947, for commercial service, renamed SS Mason Lykes
    Sold to Ocean Freighting & Brokerage Corp. (T.J. Stevensons Steamship Co.), renamed SS Flower Hill
    Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 27 October 1969, to Tung Tan Manufacturing Col., Ltd., Taiwan
  • USS Trego received 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 62 Officers 333 Enlisted
    Armament
    one single 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 GE geared turbine drive, single propeller, 6,000shp
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    Trego 62k USS Trego (AKA-78) moored pierside, date and location unknown. Leland Smith in honor of his father Leland L. (Roy) Smith S1/c USS Trego
    Trego 137k USS Trego (AKA-78) original N division (Radar operators and signalmen), date and location unknown. Clif (Rocky) Rockwell USS Trego
    Trego 591k USS Trego (AKA-78) at anchor, date and location unknown. Clif (Rocky) Rockwell USS Trego
    Trego 135k Amidships looking aft plan view of USS Trego (AKA-78) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 15 March 1946. Trego was in overhaul at Mare Island from 15 February to 18 March 1946.
    Mare Island Naval Shipyard photo # 1091-46, 3/15/46    		 Darryl Baker
    Trego 103k Fantail view of USS Trego (AKA-78) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 15 March 1946.
    Mare Island Naval Shipyard photo # 1092-46, 3/15/46    		 Darryl Baker
    Commercial Service
    Trego 227k Ex-USS Trego (AKA-78) in commercial service for Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. as SS Mason Lykes working cargo at Bremen, Germany, 1959 Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    Trego 254k SS Mason Lykes pierside in a US Gulf port, circa 1950s. Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    Trego 231k Outbound SS Mason Lykes meeting the inbound Canadian Pacific freighter SS Beaverford on the Waser River while departing Bremen, Germany, late 1957. Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    Trego 397k Ex-SS Mason Lykes, ex-Trego (AKA-78) in commercial service for T.J. Stevensons Steamship Co., as SS Flower Hill underway in the Malacca Strait, circa late-1960s. Photo by Airfoto Malacca. Gerhard Mueller-Debus
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Personnel log of Clifton (Rocky) Rockwell USS Trego 1944-46
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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