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USAT Anne Hanify

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 in 1920 as lumber schooner SS Anne Hanify at Kruse & Banks Shipbuilding, North Bend, OR., for J.R Hanify Co. Inc.
  • Launched in 1920
  • Delivered in May 1920 to J.R. Hanify Co., Inc.
  • Acquired, 19 October 1942, at San Pedro, CA. by the War Shipping Administration
  • Allocated to the War Department, 19 October 1942, as a bare bottom charter
  • Delivered, 27 October 1945, under a General Agency Agreement to Sudden & Christenson, Inc. at San Francisco, CA.
  • Re-delivered, 21 February 1946, J.R. Hanify Co., Inc.
  • Sold, May 1946, to a Cosa Oeste, reflagged Panama, renamed SS Salina Cruz
  • Final Disposition, burnt, 17 October 1949, SS Salina Cruz on voyage from Vancouver to Honolulu with general cargo and lumber, caught fire, broke in two, 100 miles west (other sources 80 miles) of Gray's Harbor, WA.. The afterpart sank and the forepart was totally destroyed. (Lloyd's of London, Lloyd's Register of Casualty Returns)
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,343 gross t.
    Length 235'
    Beam 43'
    Draft 20'
    Speed 10 kts
    Complement
    Officers unknown
    Enlisted unknown
    Cargo Capacity unknown
    Largest Boom Capacity unknown
    Armament unknown
    Fuel Capacity unknown
    Propulsion
    one reciprocating triple expansion steam engine
    single propeller, 1,000 hp
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    Anne Hanify
    302200301    		 59k Lumber Schooner SS Salina Cruz in distress, 17 October 1949.
    Photo from Wreck Site.eu    		 John Spivey
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