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USAT Delarof

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:
  • Laid down in 1919 as the Cargo ship SS Mohinkis at Pacific Coast Shipbuilding, Bay Point, CA. for the United States Shipping Board (USSB)
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Completed and delivered in April 1920 to the United State Shipping Board
  • Acquired by the Alaska Packers Association in 1929, renamed SS Delarof
  • Acquired by the War Shipping Administration, 3 July 1942, as a bare bottom charter from the Alaska Packers Association, at Seattle, WA.
  • Assigned to the War Department, 3 July 1942, as a sub bare bottom charter, at Seattle, WA.
  • Assigned, 10 August 1945, to the Alaska Packers Association under a General Agency Agreement
  • Re-delivered, 11 December 1946, to the Alaska Packers Association
  • Sold by the Alaska Packers Association, 11 December 1946, to Compania Loma de Vapores S.A., ( Pappadakis), renamed SS Nicky, reflagged Panama
  • Sold in 1947 to Bharat Co, renamed SS Bharatsena reflagged Brazil
  • Sold in 1956 to International Union Renamed SS Aloha, reflagged Panama
  • Final Disposition, foundered off Luzon 6 January 1958
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,800 gross tons
    Length 402'
    Beam 58'
    Draft 35'
    Speed 11 kts
    Complement
    Officers unknown
    Enlisted, unknown
    Troopship Passenger Capacity unknown
    Cargo Capacity unknown
    Cruise Radius unknown
    Propulsion
    Triple expansion steam engine
    single shaft, 2,800shp
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    USAT Delarof
    Delarof
    302202702    		 42k Evacuation of residents from St. Paul Island in the Aleutian Islands in 1942. Evacuees gaze at their homes as USAT Delarof pulls away from the dock, taking them to internment camps in southeast Alaska.
    Photo from www.flickr.com by National Park Service    		 John Spivey
    Delarof
    302202701    		 41k USAT Delarof anchored off the Pribilof Islands in May 1943 ready to take aboard St. George, St.Paul and Atka villagers and transport them to Admiralty Island in southeast Alaska.
    Alaska State Library, Evan Hill Collection/i>    		 John Spivey
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