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T-AKL-32
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USAV FS-548 (1944 - 1950)

US Army FS-547 Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal
USAV FS-548 was manned by the US Coast Guard during World War II
Camano Class Light Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down, date unknown, for the US Army as the Small Freighter FS-548 (design 381) at United Concrete Pipe, Long Beach CA
  • Delivered to the US Army in November 1944
  • Commissioned USAV FS-548, 2 November 1944 Los Angeles, LTjg. N. R. Samuelson, USCGR in Command, as first commanding officer
  • LTjg. Samuelson was succeeded in command, 11 September 1945 by LTjg. James E. Warren, USCGR
  • FS-548 was assigned to and operated in the Southwest Pacific and Western Pacific areas, including Leyte, etc.
  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Transferred from the US Army Transportation Command (USAT) to the US Navy Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS), 1 July 1950, designated T-AKL-32
  • Struck from the Naval Register in 1961
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 560 t.
    Length 177'
    Beam 32'
    Draft 14'
    Speed 12 kts
    Complement 42
    Propulsion two 500hp GM Cleveland Division 6-278A 6-cyl V6 diesel engines
    twin screws
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