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USS Saugus (MCS-4)
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USS Saugus (LSV-4) (1945 - 1956)

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Foxtrot - Alpha - Bravo NFAB

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)

Osage Class Mine Layer

Laid down a Net Layer (AN-4), 27 July 1942 at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, MS

Reclassified a Transport (AP-109), 1 May 1943

Launched, 4 September 1943

Reclassified an Osage Class Landing Ship Vehicle, 21 April 1944

Completed by Tampa Bay Shipbuilding Co., Tampa Bay FL.

Commissioned USS Saugus (LSV-4), 22 February 1945, CAPT. Robert S. Bertschy, USN, in command

During World War II USS Saugus was assigned to th Asiatic-Pacific Theater

Following World War II USS Saugus was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East for the following periods:

Navy Occupation Service Medal
22 to 26 September 1945
11 to 22 October 1945

Decommissioned, 24 March 1947, at San Diego CA.

Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet

Redesignated an Osage Class Mine Countermeasures Support Ship (MCS-4), 18 October 1956

Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 28 October 1960, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.

Struck from the Naval Register 1 July 1961

Permanent custody transferred to the Maritime Administration, 1 October 1962

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 19 July 1976, to National Metal & Steel Corp. for $470,000.00 a two ship sale (PD-X-1009), delivered 9 August 1976

Specifications:
Displacement 5,625 t(lt) 9,040 t.(fl)
Length 451' 4"
Beam 60' 3"
Draft 20' (limit)
Speed 20.3 kts (trial)

LSV Complement

Officers 114

Enlisted 450

Troop Capacity

122 Officers

1236 Enlisted

Boats

19 LVT or 29 DUKW

Armament

two single 5"/38 cal dual purpose gun mounts, forward

one twin 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, aft

four twin 40mm AA gun mounts

twenty single 20mm AA gun mounts

Propulsion

two General Electric geared turbines

four Combustion Engineering 2-drum boilers, 400psi 700°

double General Electric Main Reduction Gears

four 500Kw 450V A.C. turbo-drive Ship's Service Generators

two propellers, 11,000shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
10170404	298k	Saugus (LSV-4) stern and port side forward ship building progress photos, 5 July 1944, Tampa Shipbuilding Co. Inc., Tampa Bay, FL.	Rick Davis
10170405	241k		Rick Davis
10170406	558k	Saugus (LSV-4) bow and port side forward ship building progress photos, 8 January 1945, Tampa Shipbuilding Co. Inc., Tampa Bay, FL.	Rick Davis
10170407	350k		Rick Davis
10170401 NARA Photo # 19-N-81092	215k	*USS Saugus* (LSV-4) underway while running builders trials near her conversion yard at Tampa, Florida, 5 March 1945. Note the two Welin boat davits on the port side amidships and the relocated 5"/38 single mount aft. Saugus** was completed with a single instead of a twin 5"/38 gun mount aft. U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM, Photo No.'s 19-N-81092 and US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, Photo # 19-N-81095, U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photos now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com	Mike Green and Rick Davis
10170408	215k
10170403 NARA Photo # 19-N-81095	250k
10170409	293k
10170410	417k
10170402	480k	*USS Saugus* (LSV-4)** underway off the coast of northern California, near San Francisco in 1944. Her camouflage is Measure 31 Design 15L.	David Buell
10170411	187k	The anxious crew of *USS Saugus* (LSV-4)** docking at Portland, OR., 23 December 1945, after concluding a WestPac cruise. Oregon Historical Society Lot284.1069	John Chiquoine