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NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Smolinski

USS Seminole (LKA-104)
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USS Seminole (AKA-104) (1945 - 1969)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Echo - Charlie - India NECI

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (18 May 1967) - Navy Unit Commendation
Second Row - Navy Expeditionary Medal (1-Thailand) - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal
Third Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Fourth Row - National Defense Service Medal (2) - Korean Service Medal (6) - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (2-Vietnam)
Fourth Row - Vietnam Service Medal (7) - Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation (8) - Philippines Liberation Medal
Fifth Row - United Nation Service Medal - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal

Tolland Class Amphibious Cargo Ship:

Laid down, date unknown, as a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-AJ3) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1703), at North Carolina Shipbuilding Co., Wilmington, N.C.

Launched, 28 December 1944

Acquired by the US Navy from the Maritime Commission and ferried to her conversion yard at Charleston, S.C.

Commissioned USS Seminole (AKA-104), 8 March 1945, at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, S.C., CDR. James H. Budd, USNR, in command.

During World War II USS Seminole was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater

Following World War II and during the Korean War USS Seminole was assigned to Occupation and China service in the Far East for the following periods:

Navy Occupation Service Medal	China Service Medal (extended)
25 September to 1 October 1945	7 December 1945 to 4 February 1946
24 to 31 October 1945	9 to 17 April 1951

During the Korean War USS Seminole (AKA-104) participated in the following campaigns:

**Korean War Campaigns**
Campaigns and Dates	Campaigns and Dates
North Korean Aggression 6 to 12 September 1950 18 September to 2 November 1950	First UN Counter Offensive 25 January to 22 February 1951
Communist China Aggression 3 November 1950 to 24 January 1951	Korean Defense Summer-Fall 1952 15 December 1952 13 to 15 April 1953
Inchon Landing 13 to 17 September 1950	Korea Summer-Fall 1953 23 to 25 April 1953 8 to 17 May 1953 11 to 22 June 1953 16 to 27 July 1953

During the Vietnam War USS Seminole (AKA-104) participated in the following campaigns:

**Vietnam War Campaigns**
Campaigns and Dates	Campaigns and Dates
Vietnamese Counteroffensive 20 to 30 March 1966	Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VI 1 to 16 November 1968 24 November to 8 December 1968 28 December to 8 February 1969
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase II 23 to 25 October 1966 1 to 8 March 1967 18 to 19 April 1967 21 to 31 May 1967	Vietnam Winter-Spring 1970 10 to 11 January 1970 28 to 30 January 1970
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase III 1 to 12 June 1967 27 June to 26 July 1967	Sanctuary Counteroffensive 20 to 23 May 1970
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase V 7 to 12 September 1968 30 to 31 October 1968

Redesignated Amphibious Cargo Ship (LKA-104), 1 January 1969

Decommissioned, 23 December 1970, at the Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, San Diego, CA,

Custody returned to MARAD for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, 20 May 1971

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 September 1976

Final Disposition, sold for (non-transportation use) scrapping by MARAD, 16 November 1977, to American Ship Dismantlers, Inc.

USS Seminole received six battle stars Korean War service and seven campaign stars Vietnam War service

Specifications:
Displacement 8,635 t.(lt) 14,160 t.(lim)
Length 459' 2"
Beam 63'
Draft 26' 4"
Speed 16.5 kts.

Complement

Officers 35

Enlisted 387

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 5,275 DWT

non-refrigerated 380,000 Cu ft

Fuel Capacities

NSFO 10,425 bbls

Diesel 805 Bbls

Propulsion

one General Electric geared turbine drive

two Combustion Engineering header-type boilers, 450psi 750°

double General Electric Main Reduction Gear

three turbo-drive 300Kw 120V/240V D.C. Ship's Service Generators

one propeller, 6,000shp

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
349k	*USS Seminole* (AKA-104) moored outboard of USS Kermit Roosevelt (ARG-16)**, date and location unknown. Photo by Ronald Roy SMC USN Ret.	Scott Nelson for his Grandfather Ronald Roy SMC USN Ret. USS Atlas
161k	Stern view of *USS Seminole* (AKA-104)** getting underway, date and location unknown. Photo by Ronald Roy SMC USN Ret.	Scott Nelson for his Grandfather Ronald Roy SMC USN Ret. USS Atlas
167k	*USS Seminole* (AKA-104)** moored pierside, date and location unknown. Photo by Ronald Roy SMC USN Ret.	Scott Nelson for his Grandfather Ronald Roy SMC USN Ret. USS Atlas
77k	*USS Seminole* (AKA-104)** underway, date and location unknown.	.
83k	*USS Seminole* (AKA-104)** underway, circa 1946-1950	John Valasek in honor of his father Edmund G Valasek EN1 USN crew member circa 1946-50
134k	*USS Seminole* (AKA-104)** broadside view underway, date and location unknown. US Navy Photograph # USN 1044363	Henry A Wristen
95k	*USS Seminole* (AKA-104)** at anchor after a refit at San Francisco, 11 February 1954, hoisting one LCM and preparing to hoist a second. Numbers painted on her side indicate boat stations for loading. US Navy photo from "U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History" by Norman Friedman.	Robert Hurst
52k		Robert Hurst
1657k	*USS Seminole* (AKA-104)** underway, 23 March 1955, location unknown. US Navy photo #1078532	David Buell
905k	*USS Seminole* (AKA-104)** at anchor, date and location unknown. US Navy photo.	David Buell
86k	*USS Seminole* (AKA-104)** underway departing San Diego, CA., date unknown.	Russ Padden
77k	Stern view of *USS Seminole* (AKA-104)** moored at San Diego, September 1960.	Photo by Lee Noland STGC USN Ret. USS Bausell
64k	*USS Seminole* (AKA-104)** at Subic Bay, summer 1967.	Photo by Larry Backus USS Bausell