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USAT Haleakala

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Transport:
  • Laid, 16 May 1922, as the inter-island passenger and cargo steamer SS Haleakala by Sun Shipbuilding, Chester, PA. for the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., Honolulu, T.H>
  • Launched, 18 September 1922
  • Delivered, 15 February 1923 to Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.
  • Acquired by the War Shipping Administration, as a bare-bottom charter, 1 May 1942 and turned over to the War Department as a sub bare bottom charter the same day
  • Converted to a troop transport and commissioned, date unknown, by the US Army Transportation Corp., as USAT Haleakala
  • Returned, 22 July 1946 to Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.
  • Sold, 15 February 1949, to Far East Panamanian Steam Navigation Co., Shanghai, reflagged Panama, renamed SS Tasikmalaja
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping in 1951
    Specifications:
    Displacement 3,679 t. (gross)
    Length 345'
    Beam 46'
    Draft 32'
    Speed 16 mph
    Complement
    Officers unknown
    Enlisted, unknown
    Cargo Capacity unknown
    Cruise Radius unknown
    Propulsion
    one reciprocating steam engine
    single shaft, 2,500hp
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    For Full Size Image    		Size Image Description Source
    Pre WWII Merchant Service Inter Island Steam Navigation Co.
    Haleakala 270k
    Namesake
    Haleakala, a shield volcano that forms more than 75% of the Hawaiian Island of Maui.     		Tommy Trampp
    Haleakala
    301304001    		 107k Post card image of the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co.'s Ltd. steamer, SS Haleakala
    Flickr - ©Micheal Locke    		 John Spivey
    Haleakala
    301304002    		 76k Inter-Island Steam SS Haleakala disembarking passengers, circa 1920s.
    Tai Sing Loo Collection - Hawaiian Historical Society Historical Photograph Collection.    		 John Spivey
    USAT Haleakala
    Haleakala
    301304004    		 71k A landing craft alongside USAT Haleakala off Okinawa in September 1945 with the cast and crew members of Irving Berlin’s traveling U.S. military play "This is the Army" climbing down the nets on the side of USAT Haleakala during the time that the play was being performned on the island.
    Micheal Locke, US Army Signal Corps photo from Flickr by State Archives of North Carolina    		 John Spivey
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