USS Banner (AKL-25)
USS Banner (AKL-25) at Hong Kong, 1959
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History | |
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Name |
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Builder | Kewaunee Shipbuilding and Engineering |
Laid down | 1944 |
Commissioned | 24 November 1952 |
Decommissioned | 14 November 1969 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 550 tons light, 895 tons full, 345 tons dead |
Length | 177 ft (54 m) |
Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Propulsion | twin diesel |
Speed | 12.7 knots (23.5 km/h) |
Complement | 6 officers, 70 men |
Armament | 2 × M2 Browning .50-caliber machine guns |
The USS Banner (AKL-25, then AGER-1) was originally U.S. Army FS-345 serving in the Southwest Pacific during the closing days of World War II as one of the Army's
Construction
Banner was built as a Design 381 coastal freighter for the United States Army as U.S. Army FS-345 at Kewaunee Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation, Kewaunee, Wisconsin, United States.[1][2][note 1]
History
U.S. Army FS-345 was Coast Guard manned during World War II, commissioning at Kewaunee 26 July 1944.
The ship was acquired by the Navy on 1 July 1950 and placed in service by the
On 25 July 1965 Banner departed Guam for the
Banner operated with
Former seamen
- Nathaniel M. Gorton, federal judge
Footnotes
- ^ The DANFS statement the ship was built as Captain William Galt is doubtful. The Army did not tend to name these vessels until 1945 or later. No other references, including the Coast Guard wartime synopsis mentions a name during this period.
- ^ The Army did not "commission" its ships. Those manned by Coast Guard crews underwent a commissioning in Coast Guard tradition.
References
Bibliography
- Coast Guard Historian's Office (17 November 2014). "World War II Coast Guard-Manned U.S. Army Freight and Supply Ship Histories". United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
- Colton, T. (28 November 2012). "U.S. Army Coastal Freighters (F, FS)". Shipbuilding History. T. Colton. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
- Naval History And Heritage Command. "Banner II (AKL-25)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History And Heritage Command. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
- USS Pueblo Veteran's Association. "US Navy AGER Program". USS Pueblo Veteran's Association. Retrieved 30 June 2015.