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USS Taupata (YAG-26)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, 5 April 1943)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal
Self-propelled Wooden-hulled Miscellaneous Auxiliary Service Craft:
  • Built in 1930 as Taupata at G.T. Niccol, Auckland, N.Z. for Anchor Shipping & Foundry Co., Nelson, N.Z.
  • Acquired by the US Navy, 10 November 1942, from the government of New Zealand
  • Commissioned USS Taupata (YAG-26), 10 November 1942
  • During World War II USS Taupata was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaign:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Campaign and Dates
    Consolidation of Solomon Islands
    Consolidation of southern Solomons, April 1943
  • USS Taupata also served as an auxiliary service craft at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard until early 1944
  • Decommissioned, 24 April 1944, and returned to Anchor Shipping & Foundry Co., Nelson, N.Z.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 16 May 1944
  • Sold in 1949 to Pearl Kasper Shipping Co., Nelson N.Z.
  • Sold in 1962 to Coastal Services (Motueka) Ltd., Nelson, N.Z.
  • Damaged by fire in 1965, laid up and offered for sale
  • Sold in February 1967 for use as a mother ship for crayfishing in the Seychelle Islands
  • Departed, 16 March 1967, from Lyttelton, New Zealand for the Seychelle Islands after completing refit
  • Sold in 1971 to Taupata Fishing Corp. Port Moresby, PNG,
  • Lloyds Supplement lists her as operating as a pleasure craft
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 268 t.
    Length 117' 6"
    Beam 26' 2"
    Draft 6' 8"
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion twin 8-cylinder Fairbanks Morse diesels, two propellers, 140nhp
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    Taupata 62k Ex-USS Taupata (YAG-26) underway as MV Taupata probably for the Pearl Kasper Shipping Co. of Nelson New Zealand, at the Port of Kaiapoi, New Zealand, sometime between mid-March 1961 and May 1962. Photo courtesy of D. Ball with permission from David Shepherd webmaster New Zealand Coastal Shipping
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