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USAV FS-247

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

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American Campaign Medal - Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Freight-Supply Vessel
  • Laid down in 1944 as FS-247 as a wood hull Design 342 Freight-Supply Vessel, for the US Army at Northwestern Shipbuilding Co., South Bellingham, WA.
  • Launched in 1944
  • Delivered in July 1944 to the US Army Quartermaster Corps
  • Allocated to the US Army Transportation Corps, Commissioned USAV FS-247, date unknown
  • Decommissioned, date and location unknown
  • Bought by the goverment of French Polynesia, renamed Orohena
  • Used as an auxiliary schooner making weekly runs between Tahiti and outlying islands
  • Sold in 1953 A. Blouin, renamed Vaiatea
  • Final Disposition, sank, 24 November 1977, in a lagoon near Papeete, Tahiti.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 540 t.
    Length 148'
    Beam 33'
    Draft 14'
    Speed 12 kts.
    Complement unknown
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion 875-hp (740-kw) Fairbanks-Morse diesel engine
    single screw
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