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USS Ottawa (AKA-101)


/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Echo - Bravo - Bravo
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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Tolland Class Attack Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down, 5 October 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-AJ3) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1698) at North Carolina Shipbuilding, Wilmington, N.C.
  • Launched, 29 November 1944
  • Placed in partial commission as USS Ottawa (AKA-101), at Wilmington, N.C., 9 January 1945, LT. Guyon, Elmer Edward USNR (Aux. Ferry Crew # 1) in command
  • Decommissioned, 10 January 1945 at Charleston Navy Yard for conversion to naval service
  • Re-commissioned USS Ottawa (AKA-101), 8 February 1945, LCDR. Jackson Mizell, USNR, in command
  • During World War II USS Ottawa was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    TransRon Twenty-Three, COMO . A.S. Witherspoon;
    TransDiv Sixty-Seven
  • Following World War II USS Ottawa was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East for the following periods:

    Navy Occupation Service Medal
    2 to 27 September 1945
    26 October to 12 November 1945

  • USS Ottawa (AKA-101) was assigned to Joint Task Force 1, Task Unit 1.3.1 Transportation Group (Transportation Division (TRANSDIV 31) for Operation Crossroads the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in July 1946
  • Decommissioned, 10 January 1947, at Norfolk, VA.
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission, 28 January 1947, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall, VA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 14 March 1947
  • Sold, 3 October 1947, by the Maritime Commission to Luckenbach Steamship Lines, Inc., renamed SS Andrea F. Luckenbach
  • Final Disposition, lost due to stranding three miles off Kohala Point, Kauai, Territory of Hawaii, 11 March 1951
    Specifications:
    Displacement 6,556 t.(lt) 14,100 t.(fl)
    Length 459' 2"
    Beam 63'
    Draft 26' 4"
    Speed 16.5 kts.
    Complement
    Officers 38
    Enlisted 387
    Largest Boom Capacity 35 t.
    Cargo Capacity 5,275 DWT
    non-refrigerated 380,000 Cu. ft
    Armament
    one 5"/38 cal dual purpose gun mount
    four twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    eighteen single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Boats
    eight LCMs
    one LCP(L)
    fifteen LCVPs
    Fuel Capacity
    NSFO 10.425 Bbls
    Diesel 805 Bbls
    Propulsion
    one General Electric steam turbine
    two Combustion Engineering header-type boilers, 450psi 750°
    double General Electric Main Reduction Gears
    three turbo-drive 300Kw 120V/240V D.C. Ship's Service Generators
    single propeller, 6,000shp
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    USS Ottawa (AKA-101)
    Ottawa 143k Launch of Ottawa (AKA-101), 29 November 1944, at North Carolina Shipbuilding, Wilmington, N.C. Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    Ottawa 63k USS Ottawa (AKA-101) underway off Charleston, S.C. circa February 1945 Robert Hurst
    Ottawa
    100210103    		 272k USS Ottawa (AKA-101) underway in the Pacific Ocean in May 1945. Note her eight Landing Craft, Mechanized (LCM) stowed athwartships above her second through fifth main cargo hatches. Photographed from a blimp of Lighter Than Air Patrol Squadron 33 (ZP-33) flying out of NAS Tillamook, OR.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo NH 107737    		 Mike Green
    Ottawa
    100210104    		 462k USS Ottawa (AKA-101) underway in San Francisco Bay circa 1945-46 with Oakland San Francisco Bay Bridge in the background.
    US Navy photo from the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum    		 Darryl Baker
    USS Ottawa (AKA-101)
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
     LT. Guyon, Elmer Edward, USNR (Aux. Ferry Crew # 1)9 January 1945 - 10 January 1945
     Decommissioned10 January 1945 - 8 February 1945
    01LCDR. Mizell, Jackson, USNR8 January 1945 - 13 December 1945
    02CDR. Ehle, Arthur Kendrick13 December 1945 - 10 January 1947
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Action Report - Landing of Occupation Forces, Nagasaki Japan, September 1945
    USS Ottawa (AKA-101) War Diaries February 1945 to December 1945, History and Action Report
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