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USAV FS-790

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

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 1,068 t. (lt), 1,875 t. (fl)
    Length 220'9¾"
    Beam 38'
    Draft 19'
    Speed 12.25 kts.
    Cargp Capacity
    underdeck 56,400 cu.ft.
    special 3,382 cu.ft.
    refrigerated 1,678 Cu. Ft.

    Complement 8 officers, 34 enlisted
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion Fairbanks-Morse 3808 opposed piston diesel engines, ea. 800hp @ 720RPM
    two three blade bronze 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
    There is no history record available for USAV TS-790 at NavSource
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    "New Army Prototype Cargo Vessel" Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co. "The Log", August 1953.
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