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APA-107 Goodhue

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive - Okinawa, 2 April 1945) - 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)
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 L. D. Sharp, Jr., in command
  • During World War II Goodhue was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the:
  • Decommissioned, 5 April 1946, at Norfolk, VA.
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission (date unknown)
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Sold for commercial service by the Maritime Commission in 1947, to Matson Navigation Co., renamed SS Hawaiian Citizen
  • Converted to a container ship in 1960
  • Final Disposition, scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan in March 1982
  • Goodhue received one battle star for World War II service
    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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    Goodhue 92k Ex-Goodhue (APA-107) in commercial service as the Matson Line's Hawaiian Citizen drydocked in San Francisco, CA., September 1978. Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    Goodhue 62k Ex-Goodhue (APA-107) in the background in commercial service as the Matson Line's SS Hawaiian Citizen drydocked in San Francisco, CA. In the foreground is Haleakala (AE-25), September 1978. Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
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