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USAT Nebraskan

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Paciic Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Freighter:
  • Laid down, circa 1910 by Bremer Vulkan, Vagasack, Germany as Elsass for Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen (Ge)
  • Launched, 2 July 1912
  • Delivered to Norddeutscher Lloyd after completing trials, 17 August 1912
  • Confiscated by US Government, 6 April 1917, at New York, turned over to the US Shipping Board. renamed SS Appeles
  • Acquired in 1920 by Kerr Navigation Co., New York, renamed SS Kermit
  • Acquired in 1923 by American Ship & Commerce Navigation Co. (Mgr:) United American Lines Inc.
  • Acquired in 1927 by Hawaiian American SS. Co., renamed Nebraskan
  • Acquired by the War Shipping Administration from the Hawaiian American Steamship Co., at Seattle, WA., 9 February 1942
  • Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union, at San Francisco, CA., 2 December 1942, renamed Sukhona
  • Re-acquired by American Hawaiian Steamship Co., 6 April 1944 at San Francisco, CA. in a General Agency Agreement from the War Shipping Administration
  • Acquired by the War Department, 10 October 1944 as a Bare Bottom Charter
  • Commissioned, USAT Nebraskan, date unknown
  • Nebraskan was assigned to the Southwest Pacific Command U.S. Army Small Ships Section and served as a Mobile Floating Warehouse
  • Decommissioned, 17 October 1946, at the National Defense Reserve Fleeti, Wilmington, N.C.
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 17 October 1947, Maritime Administration contract PDX-378 for $58,680
    Specifications:
  • Displacement 6,572 t. gross, 11,992 t. DWT
  • Length 571'5"
  • Beam 59'
  • Draft 31'8"
  • Speed 11 kts.
  • Complement unknown
  • Armament: unknown
  • Propulsion:
    four boilers
    one vertical triple expansion steam engine
    single shaft
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Nebraskan
    301311401    		 166k USAT Nebraskan underway with flags, circa 1910-1915, location unknown.
    Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA - Bain News Service    		 John Spivey
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    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    MARAD Vessel History Database
    USAT Nebraskan by William Elmgreen
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