4/3/2023 0 Comments Scuttlebutt navy![]() ![]() ![]() This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Starr received two battle stars for World War II service. Finally, on 9 September 1970 she was sold to Sing Cheng Yung Iron & Steel Company for scrapping in Taiwan. On 7 February 1961 she was again sold to Pacific Far East Line. On 10 July 1959 she was named Lanakila, and on she was sold to Long Island Tankers Corporation which renamed her India Bear. In April 1957 she was sold to Trans-Pacific Company, who sold her in turn on 11 November 1959 to Dorama, Incorporated. In commercial service, 1947–1970 Īs a civilian vessel, Starr was sold on 3 December 1947 to Pacific Far East Lines, which changed her name to SS India Bear. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 19 June 1946. Starr arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, on 4 April 1946 was decommissioned on, and was returned to the War Shipping Administration on 1 June 1946. She remained at San Francisco from 9 to 18 March and then got underway for Hampton Roads. She arrived there on 2 January 1946, unloaded her cargo, and returned to Sasebo where she received orders to proceed, via San Diego, to San Francisco. Starr sailed from China to Sasebo, Japan, and thence to Vladivostok. Starr operated in the Philippines until 29 November when she got underway for China and arrived at Tsingtao on 4 December 1945. Starr was several days out of Guam when word was received that hostilities with Japan had ended.Īfter discharging her cargo at Guam, the ship was routed to the Philippines on 2 September she arrived at Leyte on 5 September. On 20 July, she steamed to Pearl Harbor for another load of cargo for Guam. She sailed on 24 June and arrived at Guam on 11 July. ![]() When they were completed, the ship participated in an amphibious exercise and then loaded cargo at San Francisco, California, to be delivered to Guam. She arrived at San Pedro, Los Angeles, on 5 May and repairs were begun immediately. She arrived there on 26 April and was notified that she was to return to the West Coast for overhaul. Starr sailed for Guam on 10 April with a convoy and was routed onward to Pearl Harbor. The explosion was sufficiently removed from the side of the ship, and the water absorbed the shock so Starr suffered little damage. The suicide boat had exploded as it contacted one of a cluster of Starr 's landing craft that were moored alongside. At first, it was thought that she had been torpedoed but it was soon learned that she had been attacked by a Japanese suicide boat. At 0420 on 9 April the ship was raked from stem to stern by an explosion. ![]() On 1 April, her first boats hit the water at 0615 and they soon joined their prearranged waves for hitting the Okinawa beaches. Starr loaded combat cargo from 9 to 27 March and joined a convoy for the Ryukyu Islands. She waited until 25 February to begin discharging her cargo and finished on 5 March. The attack cargo ship had multiple duties: she was a receiving ship for wounded an ammunition ship for Salt Lake City (CA-25) and she had a priority cargo of vehicles which were to be delivered only when requested and then, as quickly as possible. At 0640 three days later, Starr launched her boats against the Iwo Jima beaches. The force cleared Tanapag Harbor on 16 February. Starr joined a large convoy and sailed west on 27 January, stopping at Eniwetok for two days, before proceeding to Saipan, where the Iwo Jima assault force was staging. Starr participated in amphibious landing exercises during the first week of January and then entered Kahului Harbor, Maui, for combat loading. She arrived at Pearl Harbor on 18 December 1944 and remained there until after Christmas. After loading cargo, she stood out of Norfolk, Virginia, on 27 November and proceeded, via the Panama Canal, to the Pacific. Starr completed fitting out at Charleston, South Carolina, and sailed on 31 October for the Chesapeake Bay on her shakedown cruise. Griffin and acquired by the Navy from the War Shipping Administration on a bareboat charter and was commissioned on 29 September 1944. She was launched on 18 August 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Her keel was laid down as a Type C2-S-AJ3 ship on 13 June 1944 (as MC hull 1392), under Maritime Commission contract, by North Carolina Shipbuilding Company of Wilmington, North Carolina. Stokes was named for Starr County, Texas. She was sold into commercial service and scrapped in 1970. USS Starr (AKA-67) was a Tolland-class attack cargo ship in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. GE geared turbine drive, single propeller, 6,000 hp (4.5 MW) Sold into merchant service, 3 December 1947.North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina ![]()
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