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USAT Puebla

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Transport:
  • Laid down, date unknown, as the passenger ship SS Orinoco at Bremer Vulcan, Vegesak, Germany
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Delivered in 1928
  • Sold, date unknown, to Mexican owners, renamed MV Puebla
  • Leased, date unknown, by International Shipping Co.
  • Acquired, 28 March 1942, by the War Shipping Administration from the International Shipping Co. at Tampico, Mex. as a sub bare bottom charter and assigned, 28 March 1942, to Moore McCormack Lines under a General Agency Agreement
  • Allocated, 15 November 1942, to the War Department, Transportation Corps.
  • Delivered, 5 June 1946, the War Shipping Administration Maritime Commission National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Lee Hall, VA.
  • Assigned, 9 May 1946, to Dichman, Wright & Pugh under a General Agency Agreement
  • Re-delivered, 7 September 1946 to T.N. Epiphaniades for the International Shipping Co.
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 9,660 t.(gross)
    Length 484'
    Beam 61'
    Draft 38'
    Speed unknown
    Complement and Troop Accommodations
    Officers unknown
    Enlisted unknown
    Cargo Capacity unknown
    Armament unknown
    Fuel Capacity unknown
    Propulsion
    two 8-cyl diesel engines
    two propellers, 6,800hp
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    Merchant Service
    Puebla
    301305201    		 31k MV Puebla underway, date and location unknown. John Spivey
    Puebla
    301305202    		 47k MV Puebla underway, date and location unknown. John Spivey
    USAT Puebla
    Puebla
    301305203    		 218k USAT Puebla loading 2000 of the US Army 57th Infantry personnel on Thanksgiving Day, at San Fernando, La Union, Luzon, P. I., was the first transport to take on troops for return to the United States, 22 November 1945.
    A US Army photo, US National Archives Identifier 80680593 page 136    		 David Upton
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