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USS Awahou (YAG-24)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Self-propelled Miscellaneous Auxiliary Service Craft:

Built by Fullerton and Co., Paisley, Scotland (YN 222)

Launched, 23 February 1912

Completed for Levin & Co., Wellington, NZ, as the twin-screw steamer Awahou (British ON 121389), March 1912

Sold to Richardson & Co. Ltd., Wellington, NZ, 1917

Acquired by the US Navy from the New Zealand government under reverse Lend-Lease, 04 November 1942

Designated District Miscellaneous Auxiliary and commissioned USS Awahou (YAG-24) at Auckland, NZ, same day

During World War II USS Awahou was assigned to the South Pacific Theater, Service Squadron Eight, operating in the Guadalcanal area

Decommissioned and returned to the New Zealand government, 28 March 1944

Struck from the Naval Register, 08 April 1944

Assigned to the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, 1944

Sold to Union Manufacturing & Export Co., Suva, Fiji, 1949

Sold to Tony Carr, Sydney, NSW, 1950

Registered to Carr Shipping & Trading Co., Sydney, NSW, 1952

Reported missing after distress signal 60 miles west of Lord Howe Island on passage Sydney for Lord Howe Island, 10 September 1952. No trace of her or her crew was ever found.

Specifications:
Displacement 410 gross tons
Length 146'
Beam 25' 1"
Draft 9' 1"
Speed unknown
Complement 3 officers, 24 enlisted men
Armament unknown
Propulsion

two Fairbanks-Morse 12-cylinder diesels, 320hp (originally one 2-cylinder compound steam engine, 230shp)

twin propellers, 51nhp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
Commercial Service
14202401	75k	Awahou moored at Sydney, Australia, date unknown.	Dave Wright
14202402	53k	Awahou moored, exact date and location unknown. Australian National Martime Museum photo ANMS0413[820], gift from estate of John Watt	Dave Wright

Commanding Officers
01	LT Gilbert Potts Stearn D-V(S) USNR	(January 1943)

View the Awahou (YAG-24)
DANFS history entry located at the Naval History & Heritage Command website

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

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Last Updated 17 March 2024