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USS Mariveles (IX-197)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - Mike - Sierra
NAMS

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 - Philippine Liberation Medal

Mobile Floating Storage Tanker:

Built in 1923 as the Emergency Fleet Corporation design 1059 tanker SS Miller County at Baltimore Drydock & Shipbuilding Co., Baltimore, MD.

Assigned Registry Number (ID-4482) by US Navy

Name changed to SS Aurora, date unknown

Acquired by the War Shipping Administration for service in 1943, renamed SS Jamestown

Authorized for use by the Navy as a storage and station tanker, 17 November 1944

Acquired by the US Navy and commissioned, USS Mariveles, 17 April 1945, at Brisbane, Australia, LCDR. Edward L. Newman in command

During World War II USS Mariveles was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater

Decommissioned, 8 June 1946, at Subic Bay, P.I. and returned to the WSA the same day for disposal

Struck from the Naval Register, 10 June 1947

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, (PDX-402), 13 March 1948 at Subic Bay, P.I. to the Asia Development Corp.

Specifications:
Displacement 11.780 t.
Length 450'
Beam 59'
Draft 28' 1"
Speed 10 kts

Complement

Officers 9

Enlisted 81

Cargo Capacity 10,800 DWT

Oil 81,300 Bbls

Armament

two single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts

eight single 20mm AA gun mounts

Propulsion

Fuel Capacity

Diesel 5,400 Bbls

one Sun Diesel engine

Ship's service generators

two recip-drive 15Kw 115V D.C.

one recip-drive 20Kw 115V D.C.

single propeller, 2,600 brake horsepower

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
Merchant Service
094619702	106k	Standard Transportation Co., Inc., New York tanker SS Aurora (Ex-*Miller County), in port, date and location unknown. Photo John L. Lochhead - Auke Visser's MOBIL Tankers & Tugs Site*	Robert Hurst
094619703	64k	Standard Transportation Co., Inc., New York tanker SS Aurora with an oil barge alongside on her port side, date and location unknown. Photo courtesy John Curdy - Auke Visser's MOBIL Tankers & Tugs Site	Robert Hurst
094619704	93k	Socony-Vacuum Oil Co Inc. tankder SS Aurora at anchor, 2 April 1942, location unknown. U.S. Coast Guard photo - Auke Visser's MOBIL Tankers & Tugs Site	Robert Hurst
094619705	82k	Socony-Vacuum Oil Co Inc. tankder SS Aurora at anchor showing damage from an attack by two German U-boats, 10 May 1942, when she was hit by three torpedoes and subjected to a severe shelling. U.S. Coast Guard photo - Auke Visser's MOBIL Tankers & Tugs Site /i>	Robert Hurst
	100k	War Shipping Administration tanker SS Jamestown photographed, 20 November 1943 by a blimp based in Houma, LA. U.S. National Archives, RG-80-G, Photo # 272168 A US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com.	Mike Green

USS Mariveles (IX-197)
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