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USS Barnstable (APA-93)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Zulu - Uniform - Oscar
 NZUO
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 (4)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Medal (with Asia Clasp) - Philippine Liberation Medal (2)
Bayfield Class Attack Transport:
  • Laid down, 6 May 1943, as SS Sea Snapper, a Maritime Commission type (C3-S-A2) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 282) at Western Pipe and Steel Co., Los Angeles CA.
  • Launched, 5 August 1943
  • Acquired by the Navy, 30 October 1943
  • Placed in reduced commission, 30 October 1943 to 3 November 1943, for transit to her fitting out yard at Portland, OR.
  • Fitted out as an Attack Transport at Commercial Iron Works, Portland OR.
  • Placed in full commission as, USS Barnstable (APA-93), 22 May 1944, CAPT. Thomas Murray Stokes in command
  • During World War II USS Barnstable was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    TransRon Sixteen, COMO. J.B. McGovern USN;
    TransDiv Forty-Seven, CAPT. C.L. Hutton USN (20), and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaigns and Dates Campaigns and Dates
    Western Caroline Islands operation
    Capture and assault of southern Palau Islands, 6 September to 14 October 1944     		Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landings, 9 to 12 January 1945
    Leyte operation
    Leyte landings, 13 to 21 October and 10 to 29 November 1944     		Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 to 5 April 1945

  • Following World War II USS Barnstable was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 12 to 26 October 1945
  • Decommissioned, 25 March 1946
  • Returned to the War Shipping Administration, 26 March 1946, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall, VA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 12 April 1946
  • Commercial Service
  • Sold 18 April 1947 to the Isthmian Steamship Co., renamed SS Steel Fabricator
  • Sold in 1970, renamed SS Reliance Dynasty
  • Sold, 30 December 1970 to Valor Navigation Co., re-flagged Panamanian, renamed SS Grand Valor
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1974
  • USS Barnstable earned four battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 8,591 t.(lt), 16,100 t.(fl)
    Length 492'
    Beam 69' 6"
    Draft 24' (limiting)
    Speed 18.4 kts.
    Complement
    Officers 99
    Enlisted 593
    Flag Accommodation
    43 officers
    108 Enlisted
    Troop Accommodation
    80 Officers
    1,475 Enlisted
    Largest Boom Capacity30 t.
    Cargo Capacity 4,700 t.
    non-refrigerated 200,000 cu. ft.
    Boats
    12 LCVP
    4 LCM (Mk-6)
    3 LCP(L) (MK-IV)
    Armament
    two single 5"/38 cal dual purpose gun mounts, one fore and one aft
    four twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    eighteen single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Fuel Capacities
    NSFO 8,510 Bbls
    Diesel 750 Bbls
    Propulsion
    one General Electric geared turbine
    two Combustion Engineering D-type boilers 465psi 765°
    double General Electric Main Reduction Gears
    three turbo-drive 300Kw 120V/240V D.C.
    single propeller, 8,500shp
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    Barnstable 46k USS Barnstable (APA-93) at anchor, date and location unknown. Rick Kaufman
    Barnstable 87k USS Barnstable (APA-93) at anchor in San Francisco Bay, 5 May 1945. This ship and two other Western Pipe hulls (APA-92 and 96) had the forward pair of kingposts connected at the top by a light crossbar. During conversion an additional pair of short kingposts was installed just forward of the bridge.
    US National Archives photo # RG-19-LCM, Photo No. 19-N-87724, a US Navy Bureau of ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 Mike Green
    Barnstable 560k USS Barnstable (APA-93) at anchor in San Francisco Bay, 18 May 1945.
    US Navy photo from "U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History", by Norman Friedman.    		 Robert Hurst
    USS Barnstable (APA-93)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History and Heritage Command
    Commanding Officers
    01CAPT. Stokes, Thomas Murray22 May 1944 - 1945
    02CAPT. Roane, Virginius Randolph USN (24)1945 - ?
    03CAPT. Walsh, Harvey ThomasWWII
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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