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USS Trego (AKA-78)

International Radio Call Sign:
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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
  • Following World War II USS Trego was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 25 September to 1 November 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  • Withdrawn from the James River Reserve Fleet, 27 January 1947, for towing to Mobile AL, by Moran Towing & Transportation Co.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 earned one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 8,635 t.(lt) 14,160 t.(fl)
    Length 459' 2"
    Beam 63'
    Draft 26' 4"
    Speed 16.5 kts.
    Complement
    Officers - 24
    Enlisted - 223
    Largest Boom Capacity 35 t.
    Armament
    one single 5"/38 cal dual purpose gun mount
    four twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    sixteen single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Boats
    fourteen LCVPs
    eight LCMs
    Cargo Capacity 5,275DWT
    non-refrigerated 380,000 Cu ft.
    Fuel Capacities
    NSFO - 10,425 Bbls
    Diesel - 805 Bbls
    Propulsion
    one General Electric geared turbine
    two Babcock and Wilcox header-type boilers, 450psi 750°
    double General Electric Main Reduction Gear
    three 300Kw 120V/240V D.C. Ships's Service Generators
    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
    USS Trego (AKA-78)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History and Heritage Command
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Personnel log of Clifton (Rocky) Rockwell USS Trego 1944-46
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