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APA-106 Hansford

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive - Iwo Jima, 19 to 22 February 1945) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Individual Awards

Purple Heart (4-KIA, 11-WIA, Iwo Jima, 19 to 22 February 1945)
Bayfield Class Attack Transport:
  • Laid down, 10 December 1943, as Sea Adder, a Maritime Commission type (C3-S-A2) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1551) at Western Pipe and Steel Co., San Francisco, CA.
  • Renamed Gladwin (date unknown)
  • Launched, 25 April 1944
  • Acquired by the Navy from the Maritime Commission, 25 August 1944 and renamed Hansford
  • Commissioned USS Hansford (APA-106), 12 October 1944
  • Decommissioned, 14 June 1946, at Norfolk, VA.
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission (date unknown)
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Sold into for commercial service by the Maritime Commission in 1947 to Isthmian Steamship Co., renamed Steel Apprentice
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1973
    Specifications:
    Displacement 8,100 t.(lt) 16,100 t.(fl)
    Length 492' 6"
    Beam 69' 6"
    Draft 26' 6"
    Speed 18 kts.
    Complement 51 Officers, 524 Enlisted
    Flag Accommodations 43 Officers, 108 Enlisted
    Troop Accommodations 80 Officers, 1,146 Enlisted
    Cargo Capacity 180,500 cu. ft, 4,800 t.
    Boats 12 LCVP, 4 LCM (Mk-6), 3 LCP(L) (MK-IV)
    Armament two single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts, one fore and one aft, two single 40mm AA gun mounts, two twin 40mm AA gun mounts, eighteen single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion one General Electric geared drive turbine, 2 Foster-Wheeler D-type boilers, 1 propeller, Design shaft horsepower 8,500
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