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USS Goodhue (APA-107)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Zulu - Uniform - Victor
NZUV

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Individual Awards

Purple Heart (27-KIA, 117-WIA, Okinawa, 2 April 1945) Please note that NO Combat Action Ribbon has been authorized for this action.

Bayfield Class Attack Transport:

Laid down, 7 January 1944, as SS Sea Wren a Maritime Commission type (C3-S-A2) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1552) at Western Pipe and Steel Co., San Francisco, CA.

Launched 31 May 1944

Commissioned USS Goodhue (APA-107), 11 November 1944, Captain Lewis D. Sharp, Jr. USN in command

During World War II USS Goodhue was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
TransRon Seventeen, COMO. T.B. Brittan USN (20);
TransDiv Fifty-One, CAPT. J. L. Allen USNR and participated in the following campaign:

Campaign and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 26 March to 26 April 1945

Following World War II USS Goodhue was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 6 to 22 September 1945

Decommissioned, 5 April 1946, at Norfolk, VA.

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1946

USS Goodhue earned one battle star for World War II service

Returned to the Maritime Commission, 11 April 1946, at the James River National Defense Reserve Fleet, Lee Hall, VA.

Merchant Service

To Moran Towing and Transportation Co., 19 November 1946, for towing from Lee Hall, VA. to Tampa, FL.

Arrived, 23 November 1946, at Tampa Bay Shipbuilding for reconversion to merchant service

Sold, 6 March 1947,to Matson Navigation Co., renamed SS Hawaiian Citizen

Converted to a container ship in May 1960

Sold to Oceanic Steamship Co., 8 March 1971

Sold back to Matson Navigation Co., 4 February 1976

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 25 November 1981, to Chi Shua Hua Steel Col, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Specifications:
Displacement 8,100 t.(lt) 16,100 t.(fl)
Length 492'
Beam 69' 6"
Draft 25'
Speed 18.4 kts (trial)

Complement

Officers 41

Enlisted 437

Troop Accommodations

Officers 92

Enlisted 1470

Largest Boom Capacity 30 t.

Cargo Capacity 4,500 DWT

non-refrigerated 180,500 cu ft

Boats

twelve LCVPs

four LCM (Mk-6)s

three LCP(L) (MK-IV)s

Armament

two single 5"/38 cal dual purpose gun mounts

four twin 40mm AA gun mounts

two twin 20mm 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 Babcock and Wilcox D-type boilers, 465psi 765°

double General Electric Main Reduction Gear

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

one propeller, 8,500shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
SS Sea Wren (War Shipping Administration)
	122k	SS Sea Wren (MC hull 1552), Western Pipe & Steel Hull No. 129, fitting out at San Francisco, July and August 1944.	Tommy Trampp
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USS Goodhue (APA-107)
	281k	*USS Goodhue* (APA-107)** under way, date and location unknown.	Wolfgang Hechler
	124k	*USS Goodhue* (APA-107) with USS Dorsey (DMS-1)** alongside, circa 1945, location unknown. US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 83406. Courtesy of D. M. McPherson, 1975.	US Naval History and Heritage Command
Merchant Service
100310710	183k	Ex-*USS Goodhue* (APA-107)** in merchant service as the Matson Line's SS Hawaiian Citizen arriving in the port of San Francisco, CA., circa mid-1950s	Gerhard Mueller-Debus
100310711	123k	Matson Liner SS Hawaiian Citizen underway after being rebuilt as a container carrier, circa 1970s.	Gerhard Mueller-Debus
	92k	Matson Liner SS Hawaiian Citizen drydocked in San Francisco, CA., September 1978.	Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
	62k	SS Hawaiian Citizen in the background drydocked in San Francisco, CA. In the foreground is *USS Haleakala* (AE-25)**, September 1978.	Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus