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NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Smolinski

USS Skagit (LKA-105)
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USS Skagit (AKA-105) (1944 - 1968)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Echo - Charlie - Kilo NECK

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Second Row - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Third Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal (2) - Korean Service Medal (3)
Fourth Row - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (2-Taiwan Straits) - Vietnam Service Medal (3) - Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation (6)
Fifth Row - United Nations Service Medal - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal

Tolland Class Attack Cargo Ship:

Laid down, 21 September 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-AJ3) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1696) at North Carolina Shipbuilding, Wilmington, N.C.

Launched, 18 November 1944

Acquired by the Navy from the Maritime Commission, 28 November 1944 and towed or ferried to her conversion yard at Bethlehem Steel, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Commissioned Attack Cargo Ship USS Skagit (AKA-105), 2 May 1945, at Bethlehem Steel Co., Brooklyn, N.Y., CAPT. Harold R. Parker, in command

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

Following World War II USS Skagit was assigned to Occupation service and China service for the following periods;

Navy Occupation Service Medal	China Service Medal (extended)
2 to 8 September 1945
24 September to 2 December 1945	24 September to 2 December 1945
	24 March to 1 September 1947
	5 to 21 September 1951

Decommissioned, 30 June 1949, at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.

Recommissioned, 26 August 1950, CAPT. George R. Over USN in command

During the Korean War USS Skagit participated in the following campaigns:

**Korean War Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
First UN Counter Offensive 16 April 1951	Korean Defense Summer-Fall 1952 17 June to 12 July 1952 17to 18 October 1952
Communist China Spring Offensive 2 to 27 May 1951

During the Vietnam War USS Skagit participated in the following campaigns:

**Vietnam War Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Vietnam Defense 3 to 9 December 1965	Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase III 28 June to 1 July 1967 15 September to 1 November 1967
Vietnamese Counteroffensive 26 January to 21 February 1966 17 March to 15 April 1966

Redesignated Amphibious Cargo Ship (LKA-105), 1 January 1969

Decommissioned and Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1969

Returned to the Maritime Administration; Final Disposition, scrapped in 1974

USS Skagit received three battle stars for Korean War service and three campaign stars for Vietnam War service

Specifications:
Displacement 6,556 t.(lt) 14,160 t.(fl)
Length 459' 2"
Beam 63'
Draft 26' 4"
Speed 16.5 kts.

Complement

Officers 38

Enlisted 387

Largest Boom Capacity 35 t.

Cargo Capacity 5,275 DWT

non-refrigerated 380,000 Cu ft.

Armament

one single 5"/38 cal dual purpose gun mount

four twin 40mm AA gun mounts

eighteen single 20mm AA gun mounts

Boats

eight LCMs

one LCP(L)

fifteen LCVPs

Fuel Capacities

NSFO 10,425 Bbls

Diesel 805 Bbls

Propulsion

one General Electric steam turbine

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

double General Electric Main Reduction Gears

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

single propeller, 6,000shp

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
43k	*USS Skagit* (AKA-105)** at anchor, date and location unknown.	Robert Hurst
81k	*USS Skagit* (AKA-105)** underway, date and location unknown.	Ed Spigler
235k	Capt George R. Over during the *USS Skagit* (AKA-105)** re-commissioning ceremonies at Mare Island, 26 August 1950. Photo # (AKA 105 6800-8-50, Navy Photo, 8/26/50).	Darryl Baker
33k	*USS Skagit* (AKA-105)** underway, circa 1954, location unknown.	Robert Hurst
103k	*USS Skagit* (AKA 105)** in drydock at Pearl Harbor, HI., 1956.	Photo by Dale C Haskin
69k	*USS Skagit* (AKA 105) underway in Puget Sound, Washington. This photo, dated 13 November 1959, was used in an Associated Press article reporting the explosion of one of Skagit**'s boilers which caused her to go dead in Northern Pacific waters with 350 passengers aboard. The ship was enroute to Alaska at time.	Ron Reeves
105k	*USS Skagit* (AKA 105) moored pierside at Sasebo, Japan in February 1966. The bow of USS Ashtabula (AO-51) is visible aft of Skagit**	Photo by Larry Backus
131k	*USS Skagit* (AKA 105)** moored pierside, date and location unknown.	Tommy Trampp