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USAT Col. Jack Hayes

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

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

Self-propelled Water Tanker:

Built by Jakobson & Peterson, Inc., New York, NY (YN 226)

Completed for Newport Oil Tranportation Co., Newport, RI, as motor tanker Timothy B. O'Connell (ON 232706), 1933

Purchased by Army Quartermaster Corps for $55,000, renamed Col. Jack Hayes, 11 February 1941

Used as water tanker in New York harbor area, 1941-1945

Returned to the War Shipping Administration for disposal, date unknown

For sale at Pralls Island, NY (P-DX-137), March 1946

Registered to Tanker Andrew & Leonard, Inc., Caldwell, NJ, as Andrew-Leonard, 1946

Sold to Herbert E. Eklof, New York, NY, 1949

Renamed Eileen Eklof, 1951

Sprang leak and sank at pier Staten Island, NY, killing her master/owner, 07 November 1957

Raised, repaired and renamed Eklof, 1958

Damaged by fire while moored at Bayonne, NJ, again killing her master, 12 June 1966

Sold to Solvent Tanner Corp., Oceeanside, NY, renamed Viking, late 1960s

Later sold to Bay Ridge Water & Lighterage Co., New York, NY

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 150 gross tons / 92 net tons
Length 93' 4" waterline, 98' 6" overall
Beam 22' 0"
Draft 8' 1"
Speed unknown

Complement

Cargo Capacity unknown

Cruise Radius unknown

Propulsion

one 8-cylinder Winton diesel

one shaft, 180hp

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Namesake
	-	Jack Hayes was born 15 January 1877 in Nebraska, the son of Brigadier General Edward Mortimer Hayes. Graduating West Point in 1899, Hayes was appointed Second Lieutenant, 16th US Infantry, 15 April 1899, and First Lieutenant, 02 February 1901. Eventually rising to the rank of Colonel in the Quatermaster Corps, Hayes died at Harrisburg, PA, while assigned to the Pennsylvania National Guard as an instructor, 10 January 1925. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. (Not to be confused with the famous Texas Ranger of the same name).	Dave Wright
Commercial Service
302020701	58k	Three photos of MT Timothy B. O'Connell as completed. Photos by M. Rosenfeld, from Motorboating, January 1935.	Dave Wright
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302020704	41k	Snapshot stern view of MT Eileen Eklof during the 1950s. Photo by Paul Smith, via tugboatinformation.com	Dave Wright

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