AF-48 Alstede
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
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Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - National Defense Service Medal - Korean Service Medal (4)
Bottom Row - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Dominican Republic) - United Nations Service Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal
Alstede Class Stores Ship:
Laid down, 30 September 1944, as Ocean Chief, a Maritime.
Commission type (R2-S-BV1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1206), at Moore Drydock Co., Oakland, CA.
Launched, 28 November 1944.
Delivered to the War Shipping Administration, 4 May 1945.
Operated by United Fruit Co. under contract to the WSA for one year.
Returned to the Maritime Commission and acquired by the US Navy, 10 May 1946.
Commissioned USS Alstede (AF-48), 17 May 1946, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA.
Decommissioned, 31 October 1969.
Struck from the Naval Register, 31 October 1969.
Laid up at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Norfolk, VA., for non-industrial stripping.
Final Disposition, sold to N.W. Kennedy, Ltd, Vancouver, Canada, 2 June 1970, for scrapping.
Alstede earned four battle stars during the Korean War.
Specifications:
Displacement 15,500 t.(fl)
Length 459' 2"
Beam 63'
Draft 28'
Speed 16 kts.
Complement 292
Armament unknown
Propulsion cross-compound turbines, single propeller
Displacement 15,500 t.(fl)
Length 459' 2"
Beam 63'
Draft 28'
Speed 16 kts.
Complement 292
Armament unknown
Propulsion cross-compound turbines, single propeller
