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USAV FS-105
ex
USAV FP-105


Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Freight-Personnel / Freight-Supply Vessel
  • Laid down 1943, as the wooden-hulled Freight-Personnel Vessel FP-105, at Cambridge Shipbuilders, Cambridge, MD.
  • Launched in 1944
  • Delivered in March 1944 to the US Army Quartermasters Corps.
  • Assigned to the US Army Transportation Corp and placed in commission as USAV FP-105, date unknown
  • Redesignated Freight-Supply Vessel USAV FS-105, date unknown
  • Decommissioned and retired by US Army, date unknown
  • Sold, date unknown to Kirkconnell Brothers, date unknown
  • Original engine replaced in 1948 wtih an engine from ex-USS Bear (AG-29)
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 450 t.
    Length 141'
    Beam 31'
    Draft 14'
    Speed unknown
    Freight Capacity unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion one 6-cyl diesel engines, 1,000hp
    one propellers
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    FS-105
    300710501    		 206k Ex-USAV FS-105 in merchant service as the Kirkconnell Co., Tampa FL. refrigerated-cargo ship Kirk-C in the Panama Canal, circa May 1956.
    "The Panama Canal Review", 1 June 1956, pg.16    		Ted Yadlowsky
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