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AKA-99 Rolette

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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 - World War II Victory Medal
Bottom Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal
Andromeda Class Attack Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down, 2 December 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-B1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 221), at Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J.
  • Launched, 11 March 1945
  • Commissioned, USS Rolette (AKA-99), 27 April 1945, at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, MA., CDR. Lamar M. Wise in command
  • Decommissioned in 1945, at San Francisco, CA.;
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission, 31 March 1947, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 23 April 1947
  • Withdrawn from the National Defense Reserve Fleet, 13 August 1951, for delivery to US Navy
  • Reinstated in the Naval Register, 13 August 1951
  • Recommissioned, 23 February 1952, at Oakland, CA.
  • Decommissioned, 1 May 1956, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA.
  • Title transferred to US Navy, 31 May 1956
  • Assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay Group
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD), 30 June 1960, for disposal
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960
  • Sold to American Ship Dismantlers Inc., Portland, OR. for scrapping, 16 February 1978
  • Final Disposition, delivered, 18 March 1978 to American Ship Dismantlers, Inc., for scrapping
    Specifications:
    Displacement 6,556 t.(lt) 13,900 t.(fl)
    Length 459' 2"
    Beam 63'
    Draft 26' 4"
    Speed 16 kts.
    Complement 247
    Cargo Capacity 4,450 dwt
    Armament
    one 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    four twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    eighteen single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Boats
    eight LCMs
    one LCP(L)
    fifteen LCVPs
    Propulsion steam turbine, single shaft, 6,000shp
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    Rolette 70k Rolette (AKA-99), at anchor, date and location unknown. SSG Thomas E. Blainey U.S. Army for his father Robert A. Blainey, S/1c. USS Rolette
    Rolette 76k Rolette (AKA-99), at anchor, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret
    Rolette 133k Amidships plan view looking forward of Rolette (AKA-99) along side an unidentified LSD at Hunters Point Navy Yard, San Francisco, 26 March 1952.
    Naval Shipyard Mare Island photo # NY9-12475-3-52, 3/26/52    		 Darryl Baker
    Rolette 131k Stern plan view of Rolette (AKA-99) along side an unidentified LSD at Hunters Point Navy Yard, San Francisco, 26 March 1952.
    Naval Shipyard Mare Island photo # NY9-12478-3-52, 3/26/52    		 Darryl Baker
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