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USS Catskill (MCS-1)
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USS Catskill (LSV-1) (1944 - 1956)

MCS-1 - International Radio Call Sign:
November - Whiskey - Echo - India NWEI

LSV-1 - International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - Oscar - November NAON

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 (3)
Second Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal
Third Row - Vietnam Service Medal (5) - Philippine Liberation Medal (2) - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal

Catskill Class Mine Layer

Laid down, 12 July 1941, as Catskill AP-106 under Maritime Commission Contract (MC hull 106) at Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, OR.

Reclassified Mine Layer CM-6, 1 May 1943

Launched, 19 May 1942

Reclassified Landing Ship Vehicle LSV-1, 21 April 1944

Commissioned USS Catskill (LSV-1), 30 June 1944, CAPT. R. W. Chambers, USNR, in command

During World War II USS Catskill was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:

**Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Leyte operation Leyte landings, 20 to 22 October 1944, and 14 November 1944	Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 to 9 April 1945
Luzon operation Lingayen Gulf landings, 9 to 10 January 1945	.

Decommissioned, 30 August 1946, at San Diego, CA.

Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group

Reclassified Mine Countermeasures Support Ship MCS-1, 18 October 1956

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1961

Reinstated on the Naval Register, 1 June 1964

Converted to Mine Countermeasures Support Ship [MCS] in FY 1964, at Boland Machine Mfg., Co., New Orleans, LA., from 25 June 1964 to 8 September 1967

Recommissioned, , 6 October 1967, at Long Beach, CA., CDR West USN in command

USS Catskill was forward deployed and was homeported at NavFac Sasebo, Japan

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

**Vietnam War Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Tet 69/Counteroffensive 5 to 11 May 1969	Sanctuary Counteroffensive 28 to 30 June 1970
Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969 9 to 18 June 1969	Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII 1 July 1970
Vietnam Winter-Spring 1970 14 March to 12 April 1970	.

Decommissioned, December 1970, at Naval Shipyard, Long Beach, CA.

Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 9 November 1973, to Tai Kien Industry Co. Ltd.

USS Catskill (LSV-1) received three battle stars for World War II service and USS Catskill (MCS-1) received five campaign stars for Vietnam War service

Specifications
Displacement 5,875 t.(lt), 9,040 t.(fl)
Length 455' 5"
Beam 60' 2"
Draft 20'
Speed 20 kts.
Armament

LSV Configuration

two single 5"/38 Duel Purpose gun mounts

four twin 40mm AA gun mounts

twenty single 20mm AA gun mounts
Complement 400+
LSV Configuration Troop Accommodations 868
Boats

LSV Configuration - thirty-one DUKWS plus LCVPs

MCS Configuration - twenty 36' MSLs
Aircraft two helicopters
Propulsion four Combustion Engineering 2-drum boilers, two General Electric geared turbines, 11,000 shaft horsepower, two shafts

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Catskill (LSV-1)
	41k	*USS Catskill* (LSV-1)** underway in San Diego Bay during a shakedown cruise in August 1944. Her camouflage is Measure 31 Design 15L.	Eldon Brodie, GM1 USS Catskill June 1944 - August 1946
	78k	*USS Catskill* (LSV-1)** underway date and location unknown. US Navy photo, courtesy of Floating Drydock.	Robert Hurst
	38k	*USS Catskill* (LSV-1)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo	Hyperwar US Navy in World War II
	88k	*USS Catskill* (LSV-1) is partially visible to the far right of this photo of USS Teton AGC-14)** in Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, 27 July 1945. Taken from on board an LCM landing craft by PH1 R. Schuddekopf, assigned to Commander, Amphibious Group Twelve. US National Archives photo # 80-G-K-6446 (Color), a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.	US Naval Historical Center
USS Catskill (MCS-1)
	88k	*USS Catskill* (MCS-1)** underway, circa 1963. US Navy Photo # 1139831	US Naval Historical Center
	71k	*USS Catskill* (MCS 1)** moored to a buoy at Hong Kong, BCC, 1969.	Photo by Larry Lee
	126k	Unknown artist drawing of *USS Catskill* (MCS-1)** while underway.	CWO4 Bill Walsh USN Ret.