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U.S.S. SIRIUS
(AF-60)SLINGING SIRIUS
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USS SIRIUS (AF-60) - an Alstede-class stores ship
In Commission 1957 to 1964AF-60 Deployments - Major Events
Add a AF-60 Shellback Initiation | Add a AF-60 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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MAR | 1941 | - | MAY | 1963 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JAN | 1942 | - | Keel Date: 5 JAN 1942 | ||
APR | 1942 | - | Launch Date: 11 APR 1942 | ||
JAN | 1957 | - | Commissioned: 12 JAN 1957 | ||
APR | 1957 | - | SEP | 1957 | West Pac |
SEP | 1958 | - | Shellback Initiation - 10 SEP 1958 - Pacific Ocean | ||
SEP | 1958 | - | JAN | 1959 | West Pac |
OCT | 1958 | - | APR | 1959 | West Pac |
JUL | 1959 | - | JUN | 1960 | West Pac |
JAN | 1962 | - | MAR | 1962 | West Pac |
OCT | 1962 | - | MAR | 1963 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
MAR | 1963 | - | JUL | 1963 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
APR | 1963 | - | OCT | 1963 | West Pac |
AF-60 General Specifications
Complement: 278 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 7430 tons
Length: 459 feet
Beam: 63 feet
Draft: 27 feet
Flank Speed: 17 knots
USS SIRIUS (AF-60)
The second Sirius (AF-60), ex-SS Tradewind (MC
hull 185), was laid down on 5 January 1942 by Moore Dry Dock
Co., Oakland, Calif.; launched on 11 April 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Olga
Johnson; and delivered to the Maritime Administration on 30 April 1943.
Sirius
was acquired
by the Navy from the Maritime Administration
on 18 May 1956 and commissioned on 12 January
1957 at San Francisco. On 26 April, she sailed for Sasebo, Japan, arriving on 14 May. Sirius was to spend
most of her commissioned service plying between ports in the Far East and with the 7th Fleet. She supplied fleet units in
Japan; Hong Kong, B.C.C.; the Philippine Islands; Okinawa; and Taiwan.
Sirius was struck from the Navy list on
1 August 1965 and returned to the Maritime Administration. She was subsequently
sold to West Waterway Lumber Co., Seattle, Wash., on 13 April 1971.
[Note: The above USS SIRIUS (AF-60) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS SIRIUS (AF-60), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]