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USS Competent (AFDM-6)
ex
 USS AFDM-6 (1945 - 1979)
 USS YFD-62 (1944 - 1945)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Bravo - Hotel - Delta
 NBHD
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (6) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal
AFDM-3 Class Medium Auxiliary Floating Dry Dock:
  • Laid down (date unknown) at Everett Pacific Shipbuilding Co., Everett, WA. as Yard Floating Dock YFD-62
  • Delivered in June 1944
  • Delivered and placed in commission as USS YFD-62 in June 1944, LT. D. D. Long, Jr., USNR, in command
  • Redesignated Auxiliary Floating Dock Medium USS AFDM-6 in 1945
  • Named USS Competent (AFDM-6) in 1979
  • Decommissioned in August 1997
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 21 August 1997
  • Laid up in the NISMF, Pearl Harbor, HI.
  • Final Disposition, disposed of by donation though GSA, in private use at Kalaeloa, formerly the Barbers Point Harbor, HI.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 8,000 t.
    Length 522'
    Beam 124'
    Draft 7 to 15 ft.
    Complement
    Officers 4
    Enlisted 146
    Machinery unknown
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    Competent 654k USS AFDM-6 with USS Higbee (DD-806) docked, 15 May 1972, at Naval Station Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands. Higbee was in for repairs after being hit by a 250 pound bomb dropped by a North Vietnamese MIG.
    US Navy Photographic Center photo # 1152696--806 by PH2 Cunningham    		 Ed Zajkowski
    Competent 654k USS AFDM-6 with USS Higbee (DD-806) docked, May 1972, at Naval Station Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands.
    U.S. Navy photo from U.S. Navy All Hands magazine, October 1972    		 Ed Zajkowski
    Competent 32k USS Competent (AFDM-6), date and location unknown. CWO-4 Stanley J Bice USN
    Competent 39k USS Competent (AFDM-6), date and location unknown. CWO-4 Stanley J Bice USN
    Tuscaloosa 89k USS Tuscaloosa (LST 1187) docked in the well of USS Competent (AFDM-6) at Naval Base Subic Bay, Luzon Island, Philippine Islands, date unknown. Ron Reeves
    Tuscaloosa 113k
    Competent 71k USS Competent (AFDM-6) with a submarine in her dock, at Naval Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor, HI., date unknown. David Buck PN1 USN Ret. Competent
    Competent 98k USS Competent (AFDM-6) with submarine in her dock, at Naval Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor, HI., circa 1990-92. Photo by Duane Earwood EO3 Competent 1990-92
    Competent 101k USS Competent (AFDM-6) at Naval Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor, HI., circa 1990-92. Photo by Duane Earwood EO3 Competent 1990-92
    Competent 126k USS Competent (AFDM-6) at Naval Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor, HI., circa 1990-92. Photo by Duane Earwood EO3 Competent 1990-92
    Competent 49k Ex-USS Competent (AFDM-6) at Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Pearl Harbor, HI. 1 August 2000 Photo by Jim Bedient
    Competent 64k Ex-USS Competent (AFDM-6) at Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Pearl Harbor, HI. 1 August 2000 Photo by Jim Bedient
    Competent 80k Ex-USS Competent (AFDM-6) at Batam Island, Indonesia. Owned by to PT Arpeni Pratama Ocean Line, circa 2008. Bob Gregory
    USS Competent (AFDM-6)
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