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USNS Valentine (T-AF-47)
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 USAT Pier Bend (1947 - 1949)
 USS Valentine (AF-47) (1945 - 1946)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Adria Class Stores Ship:
  • Laid down in 1944 as MV Pier Bend, a Maritime Commission type (R1-M-AV3) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC Hull 2339) at Pennsylvania Shipyards, Inc, Beaumont, TX.
  • Launched, 3 February 1945
  • Acquired by the US Navy, 19 June 1945 and placed in service for ferrying to her conversion yard, Todd-Galveston Shipyard, Inc., Galveston, TX.
  • Commissioned USS Valentine (AF-47), 19 July 1945, at Galveston, TX., LT. John W. Perdue in command
  • During World War II USS Valentine was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater
  • Following World War II USS Valentine was assigned to Occupation and China service for the following periods;

    Navy Occupation Service Medal
    China Service Medal (extended)
    7 to 12 October 194514 October to 10 November 1945
    16 January to 26 February 1946 

  • Decommissioned, 6 August 1946, at San Francisco, CA.
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 8 October 1946
  • Transferred to the War Department, 9 October 1946
  • Operated under GAA agreement, 13 June 1947, by Northland Transportation Co.
  • Returned to the U.S. Maritime Commission, renamed Pier Bend
  • Chartered by the War Department, 23 September 1947
  • Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Olympia, WA., 31 October 1959
  • Custody assumed by the Military Sea Transportation Service, 5 July 1951, placed in service as USNS Valentine (T-AF-47)
  • Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA., 16 April 1959
  • Acquired by Point Adams Packing Co., Hammond, Or. as a fish factory, via "title exchange", 30 January 1967
  • Delivered, 8 February 1967
  • Renamed MV Northgate, 20 March 1967
  • Released from work - fish processing, May 1967
  • Sold in 1970 to California Tuna Fleet, Inc. San Diego, CA, homeported at Juneau, AK
  • Sold in 1972 to U. S. National Bank, San Diego, CA., homeported at Juneau, AK
  • Sold in 1976 to All Alaskan Sea Foods, as a fish carrier, renamed All Alaskan, homeported, Juneau, AK.
  • Final Disposition, stranded, 20 March 1987, on St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands in the winter of 1986/87, dismantled on site for scrapping
    Specifications:
    Displacement 3,139 t.(lt) 7,435 t.(fl)
    Length 338' 6"
    Beam 50'
    Draft 18'
    Speed 11.5 kts. (trial)
    Complement
    Officers 10
    Enlisted 74
    Largest Boom Capacity 10 t.
    Cargo Capacity 3,170 DWT
    Non-refrigerated - 47,610 Cu ft
    Refrigerated - 114,580 Cu ft
    Armament
    one single 3"/50 cal dual purpose gun mount
    six single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Fuel Capacity - Diesel 6,300 Bbls
    Propulsion
    one Nordberg Diesel TSM engine
    three 250Kw 120V/240V Ship's Service Generators
    single propeller, 1,700shp
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    USS Valentine (AF-47)
    Valentine
    09064706    		 236k Ex-USS Valentine (AF-47) at anchor in San Francisco Bay, circa 1945-1946. A U.S. Navy photo now in the collections of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum Darryl Baker
    USAT Valentine
    Valentine 74k Ex-USS Valentine (AF-47) in Army Transportation Service, circa 1946-47, location unknown.
    Un-numbered US Navy photo from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command, courtesy Shipscribe.com.    		 Mike Green
    USNS Valentine (T-AF-47)
    Valentine 997k USNS Valentine (T-AF-47) moored in the background of this photo of USS Sargo (SSN-583) arriving at Pearl Harbor, 16 October 1958.
    A US Navy photo now in the collections of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.    		 Darryl Baker
    Commercial Service
    Valentine 85k Ex-USNS Valentine (T-AF-47) in commercial service as the All Alaskan Sea Foods fish processing plant MV All Alaskan underway in Puget Sound near Seattle, WA. in October 1976. Robert Hurst
    Valentine 40k All Alaskan Sea Foods fish carrier All Alaskan aground on St. Paul Island, 20 March 1987. Pribilof Island group, winter 1986/87. She was later dismantled in situ for scrap.
    Photos courtesy Marine Exchange Alaska.    		 Robert Hurst
    Valentine 144k
    USS Valentine (AF-47)
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01LT. Perdue, John William, USN19 July 1945 - 6 August 1946
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information Web Sites
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    MARAD Vessel History Database
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