USS Chatham (AK-169)
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USS Chatham (AK-169) was an Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II. She was responsible for delivering troops, goods and equipment to locations in the war zone.
Construction
The third Chatham commissioned by the Navy, was launched 13 May 1944 by Froemming Brothers, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, under a Maritime Commission contract, MC hull 2142; sponsored by Mrs. G. C. Salisbury; acquired by the Navy 20 January 1945; and commissioned at Galveston, Texas, 22 February 1945.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Service history
World War II Pacific Theatre operations
Chatham arrived at Pearl Harbor 6 May 1945 to carry cargo to Eniwetok, Saipan, and Guam, before returning to San Francisco, 18 July for a brief overhaul. She cleared San Francisco 13 August, and until 30 January 1946, when she returned to San Francisco once more, carried cargo from Okinawa to Guam, Manus, Saipan, Eniwetok, and the Philippines, aiding in the redeployment of American strength in the Pacific Ocean which followed the war.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Post-war decommissioning
From the US West Coast, she sailed to Baltimore, Maryland, where she was decommissioned 2 April 1946 and returned to the Maritime Commission, 4 April 1946.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Merchant service
Chatham was acquired by the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Mattschappij, N.V. of Amsterdam, Holland, and renamed Helena, the former Navy cargo ship operated out of Amsterdam, under the Dutch flag, from 1949 to 1963.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
She was sold in 1963 to the Bahamas Line, Panama, and renamed Lincoln Express.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". She broke in two and sank 15 December 1972, in heavy weather West of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a load of Gypsum.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". All but one of her crew were rescued by the USCG buoy tender Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"..Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Military awards and honors
The record does not indicate any battle stars for Chatham. However, her crew was eligible for the following medals:
- American Campaign Medal
- Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
- World War II Victory Medal
- Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Notes
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