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USAT Alencon

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
Freighter:
  • Built 1919 as the machinery aft cargo ship SS Cowiche at Great Lakes Engine Works, Ashtabula, OH., for the United States Shipping Board (USSB)
  • Launched, 18 March 1919
  • Delivered in May 1919 to United States Shipping Board
  • Acquired by the California & Oregon Lumber Co. in 1922, renamed Brookings
  • Rebuilt in 1922, tonnage change, (2327 gross - 1388 net)
  • Acquired by Andrew F. Mahony Co. in 1927
  • Acquired by H.L. Landis (McCormick Steamship Co.) in 1934
  • Acquired by McCormick Steamship Co. in 1937
  • Sold to Compagnie Generale Transatlantique in 1940, reflagged France, renamed Alencon
  • Taken over in 1940 by the U.S. Maritime Commission, reflagged Panama
  • Acquired , 7 February 1942, at Oakland, CA., by the War Shipping Administration
  • Allocated to the War Department, 19 March 1942, as a bare bottom charter
  • Delivered, 10 May 1942, under a General Agency Agreement to Alaska Transportation
  • Re-delivered, 11 June 1942, to the War Department, US Army Transportation Corps.
  • Re-delivered, 13 February 1946, to the government of France at Los Angeles, CA.
  • Final Disposition, scrapped circa 1949
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,496 gross t. 1,490 net t.
    Length 254'
    Beam 44'
    Draft 27'
    Speed 10 kts
    Complement
    Officers unknown
    Enlisted unknown
    Cargo Capacity unknown
    Largest Boom Capacity unknown
    Armament unknown
    Fuel Capacity unknown
    Propulsion
    one reciprocating steam engine
    single propeller, 1,350 hp
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    Alencon
    301308101    		 35k Cowiche prior to launch at Great Lakes Engine Works, Ashtabula, OH., 18 March 1919.
    Bowling Green State University, University Libraries, Historical Collection of the Great Lakes    		 John Spivey
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