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USAV FS-790

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National Defense Service Medal
Freight-Supply Vessel
  • Laid down, date unknown, as Freight Supply Vessel FS-790, at Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co., Seattle, WA
  • Launched by float out, 31 October 1952, christened USAV FS-790 by Mrs. E.H. Connor, wife of Col, Connor, commander of the Seattle Port of Embarkation
  • Delivered in May 1953 to the US Army Quartermasters Corps.
  • Assigned to the US Army Transportation Corp and placed in commission as USAV FS-790
  • Assigned to US Army 73rd Floating Craft Company at Fort Eustis, VA.
  • USAV FS-790's mission at Fort Eustis was the transport and resupply of personnel and equipment. Training classes aboard the FS-790 learned celestial navigation and piloting during these 2-4 week missions. Destination ports included Portland, Maine; Bermuda; Charleston, South Carolina; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
  • Placed in stand by storage at Charleston, S.C. in December 1965
  • In March 1969 FS-790 departed on a 2 ½-week voyage to New York, Bermuda, and Charleston, South Carolina with a Harbor Craft Deck Operations Course (HCDOC) class comprised of officers, warrant officers and enlisted men
  • The 73rd Floating Craft Company turned over FS-790 to the reserve component at Curtis Bay, Maryland, 17 October 1975.
  • FS-790 was transferred to the 949th Floating Craft Company, a Baltimore Reserve unit, 15 November 1982, redesignated FS-790 (WCFT TM)
  • Retired by the US Army in June 1987
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,873 t.
    Length 220'9¾"
    Beam 38'
    Draft 19'
    Speed 12 kts.
    Freight Capacity 1900 t.
    Complement 8 officers, 34 enlisted
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion two 700hp Fairbanks-Morse opposed piston diesel engines
    two propellers
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    300779001    		 84k USAV FS-790 ready for launching by floating, 31 October 1952 at Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co., Seattle, WA.
    Photo from " Pacific Marine Review and The Log", July 1953.    		 Joe Radigan
    Virginia
    300779002    		 105k USAV FS-790 underway near Fort Eustis, Virginia in 1975.
    U.S. Army Transportation Corps photo    		 John Spivey
    Virginia
    300779003    		 49k USAV FS-790 with U.S. Army tug USAV ST-1989 alongside, at Fort Eustis, Newport News, VA., circa 1978.
    FLICKR - U.S. Army Transportation Corps photo    		 John Spivey
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