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USS Kohi (YAG-27)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
  • Build, date unknown, as MV Caed-Mile-Failte, for Capt Somerville by G.T. Niccol, Auckland, New Zealand
  • Sold in 1914 to Biddick, renamed MV Kohi
  • Sold in 1941 to Tasman Bay Shipping, Co. Ltd.
  • Acquired by the US Navy, 17 November 1942, from the government of New Zealand and commissioned USS Kohi (YAG-27), at Auckland, N.Z.
  • During World War II USS Kohi was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater
  • USS Kohi was assigned to Task Force 35, South Pacific Service Force and operated out of Auckland
  • Decommissioned, 3 March 1944, at Auckland, N.Z.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Returned to the government of New Zealand, 14 March 1944
  • Sold in 1945 to Eckford Shipping Co., Blenheim, N.Z.
  • Sold in 1948 Parry Brothers, Auckland, N.Z.
  • Sold, date unknown, to Sullivan Shipping Co.
  • Last reported in 1975 as in use as a derelict landing at Westhaven Inlet south of Cape Farewell on the West Coast of the South Island, New Zealand, still at Westhaven into 2008.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 99 t.
    Length 92' 6"
    Beam 27' 6"
    Draft 4' 2"
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion system unknown
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    Kohi 56k Ex-USS Kohi (YAG-27) underway as MV Kohi for the Sullivan Shipping Co. entering the Waimakariri River, South Island, New Zealand in 1963. Photo Capt. Paddy Leahy Collection, courtesy of M. Berthold with permission from David Shepherd webmaster New Zealand Coastal Shipping
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