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USS Cassiopeia - Wikipedia

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History
Broadside view of USS Cassiopeia (AK-75) off San Francisco, 19 December 1942.
United States
Name	Melville W. Fuller Cassiopeia
Namesake	Melville W. Fuller The constellation Cassiopeia
Ordered	as a Type EC2-S-C1 hull, MCE hull 504^[1]
Builder	Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond, California
Cost	$1,124,481^[2]
Yard number	504^[1]
Way number	2^[1]
Laid down	13 October 1942^[1]
Launched	15 November 1942
Sponsored by	Mrs. C. F. Calhoun
Acquired	27 November 1942
Commissioned	8 December 1942
Decommissioned	21 November 1945
Stricken	5 December 1945
Identification	Hull symbol: AK-75 Code letters: NYLN
Honours and awards	1 × battle star
Fate	Expended as a target 28 June 1961
General characteristics ^[3]
Class and type	Crater-class cargo ship
Type	Type EC2-S-C1
Displacement	4,023 long tons (4,088 t) (standard) 14,550 long tons (14,780 t) (full load)
Length	441 ft 6 in (134.57 m)
Beam	56 ft 11 in (17.35 m)
Draft	28 ft 4 in (8.64 m)
Installed power	2 × Oil fired 450 °F (232 °C) boilers, operating at 220 psi (1,500 kPa) , (manufactured by Babcock & Wilcox) 2,500 shp (1,900 kW)
Propulsion	1 × Vertical triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine, (manufactured by Hooven-Owens-Rentschler) 1 × screw propeller
Speed	12.5 kn (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph)
Capacity	7,800 t (7,700 long tons) DWT 444,206 cu ft (12,578.5 m³) (non-refrigerated)
Complement	195
Armament	1 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber dual-purpose (DP) gun 1 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber DP gun 2 × 40 mm (1.57 in) Bofors anti-aircraft (AA) gun mounts 6 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon cannon AA gun mounts

USS Cassiopeia (AK-75) was a Crater-class cargo ship in the service of the US Navy in World War II. She was the only ship of to bear this name. She is named after the Northern Hemisphere constellation Cassiopeia.

Construction

Cassiopeia was launched 15 November 1942 as liberty ship SS Melville W. Fuller by Permanente Metals Corporation, Richmond, California, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MCE hull 504; sponsored by Mrs. C. F. Calhoun; acquired by the Navy 27 November 1942; and commissioned 8 December 1942.^[4]

Service history

Cassiopeia sailed from San Francisco 21 December 1942 with cargo for Nouméa, where she arrived 12 January 1943. From this base, she offered essential support to the operations in the consolidation of the northern Solomons, carrying the varied necessities of war throughout the South Pacific. Between 19 June and 11 July, the cargo ship voyaged to Auckland, New Zealand, to reload, then returned with voyages from Nouméa to Guadalcanal until 9 August. Another resupply mission and a brief repair period in New Zealand preceded her resumption of South Pacific operations in November.^[4]

This pattern of ferrying vital supplies in the South Pacific alternating with voyages to New Zealand to reload continued until 6 June 1945, when Cassiopeia cleared Auckland for San Francisco, the Panama Canal Zone, and Norfolk, where she arrived 25 October.^[4]

Decommissioning

The cargo ship was decommissioned 21 November 1945, and transferred to MARCOM for disposal the same day.^[4]

Final disposition

Cassiopeia was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Virginia, on 21 November 1945.^[3]

On 21 June 1961, the Navy requested her for testing purposes, on 27 June 1961, she was transferred back to the Navy^[5] to be used as a target by Cutlass, in the VACAPES area.^[3]

Awards

Cassiopeia received one battle star for World War II service.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kaiser No. 1 2010.
^ MARCOM.
^ ^a ^b ^c Navsource 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e DANFS.
^ MARAD.

Bibliography

"Cassiopeia". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 13 December 2016. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
"Kaiser Permanente No. 1, Richmond CA". ShipbuildingHistory.com. 13 October 2010. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
"USS Cassiopeia (AK-75)". Navsource.org. 4 April 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
"MELVILLE W. FULLER". United States Department of Transportation. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
"SS MELVILLE W. FULLER". Retrieved 15 December 2017.

External links

Photo gallery of Cassiopeia (AK-75) at NavSource Naval History

Crater-class cargo ships

List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy

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Crater-class cargo ships Type EC2-S-C1 ships	Crater (ex-SS John James Audubon) Adhara (ex-SS G. H. Corliss) Aludra (ex-SS Robert T. Lincoln) Arided (ex-SS Noah H. Swayne) Carina (ex-SS David Davis) Cassiopeia (ex-SS Melville W. Fuller) Celeno (ex-SS Redfield Proctor) Cetus (ex-SS George B. Cortelyou) Deimos (ex-SS Chief Ouray) Draco (ex-SS John M. Palmer) Albireo (ex-SS John G. Nicolay) Cor Caroli (ex-SS Betsy Ross) Eridanus (ex-SS Luther Burbank) Etamin (ex-SS Isaac Babbitt) Lyra (ex-SS Cyrus Hamlin) Ganymede (ex-SS James W. Nye) Hyperion (ex-SS Christopher C. Andrews) Allioth (ex-SS James Rowan) Alkes (ex-SS Increase A. Lapham) Grumium (ex-SS William G. McAdoo) Azimech (ex-SS Mary Patten) Alnitah (ex-SS John A. Logan) Leonis (ex-SS Key Pittman) Venus (ex-SS William Williams) Cheleb (ex-SS Lyman J. Gage) Prince Georges (ex-SS Richard March Hoe)
Type EC2-S-C1 ships Liberty Ships	James Otis John Adams Kit Carson Zachary Taylor Anthony Wayne Timothy Pickering Stephen Hopkins Samuel Huntington William Ellery Lewis Morris John Wise George Ross James Smith George Taylor William Whipple Oliver Wolcott Francis Lewis John Morton George Read Roger Sherman Richard Stockton Matthew Thornton William Williams Eli Whitney Irvin MacDowell George B. McClellan Joseph Hooker Ambrose E. Burnside Peter J. McGuire Philip H. Sheridan David Bushnell John Fitch James Rumsey John Stevens Samuel F. B. Morse Cyrus H. McCormick James B. Francis Richard Jordan Gatling John James Audubon John F. Appleby Charles M. Hall George Westinghouse John Bartram G. H. Corliss Richard March Hoe Elihu Thomson George B. Selden Nathaniel Bowditch Charles M. Conrad John B. Floyd Joseph Holt John M. Schofield John A. Rawlins George W. McCrary Alexander Ramsey Robert T. Lincoln William C. Endicott Redfield Proctor Robert E. Peary David Gaillard Henry J. Raymond William G. McAdoo Leslie M. Shaw George B. Cortelyou Frederick Jackson Turner Joseph G. Cannon George Rogers Clark Louis Joliet Samuel de Champlain John A. Logan Pere Marquette John M. Palmer Richard Yates Nancy Hanks Edward P. Costigan Sieur Duluth Richard Henderson Benjamin Bonneville Charles Wilkes Justin S. Morrill Thomas Kearns Vitus Bering Dan Beard Jane A. Delano John R. Park James B. Hickok Hiram S. Maxim William B. Ogden David Dudley Field Charles P. Steinmetz David Starr Jordan Jacques Laramie Lucy Stone Frances E. Willard Betsy Ross Abigail Adams Elizabeth Blackwell S. Hall Young J. H. Kinkaid Alexander Baranof Sheldon Jackson Edward Rowland Sill Joaquin Miller Lew Wallace O. Henry F. Marion Crawford Joseph Rodman Drake William Dean Howells John Howard Payne Andrew Furuseth Moses Rogers William K. Vanderbilt James J. Hill John Rutledge William Cushing John Blair Robert H. Harrison John McLean Noah H. Swayne Samuel F. Miller David Davis Morrison R. Waite Melville W. Fuller Stanley Matthews David J. Brewer Pierre LaClede Frederic Remington Walter Colton J. Sterling Morton George H. Dern Key Pittman Chief Ouray George S. Boutwell Benjamin H. Bristow William Windom Charles J. Folger Charles S Fairchild John G. Carlisle Lyman J. Gage William H. Aspinwall Grenville M. Dodge Julien Dubuque Adoniram Judson John G. Nicolay Edward Bates Josiah B. Grinnell Henry H. Richardson Nathaniel Currier James Ives Thomas Corwin James Guthrie Howell Cobb Hugh McCulloch SS Matthew Lyon George D. Prentice William A. Jones Homer Lea Anson Burlingame Louis Hennepin Josiah Snelling George Washington Carver Luther Burbank George M. Pullman Wilbur Wright William Thornton Glenn Curtiss SS George Eastman Cyrus W. Field Isaac Babbitt Charles E. Duryea Benjamin Holt Oliver Evans Elisha Graves Otis Knute Rockne James J. Corbett Walter Camp Hobart Baker Christy Mathewson George Gipp Matthew B. Brady Edward A. MacDowell Joseph Smith Tecumseh John L. Sullivan Geronimo James A. Bayard Mary Cassatt Michael Pupin Cyrus Hamlin Henry Bergh John Carroll Jonathan P. Dolliver James Harlan Robert Lucas Edwin T. Meredith Maria Sanford Christopher C. Andrews Leonidas Merritt Floyd B. Olson Irving M. Scott Joseph S. Emery George Berkeley Adolph Sutro John W Mackay James W. Nye William W. Mayo John Lind Ole E. Rolvaag John T. McMillan Fremont Older Conrad Kohrs Stephen Crane William Beaumont John H. Rosseter Henry Dodge John S. Sargent Charles Robinson Increase A. Lapham Clarence King William Prouse M. H. De Young Sambridge (ex-SS John E. Wilkie) John Ross Francis G. Newlands Ambrose Bierce James Fergus William N Byers Joshua Hendy Marcus Daly John Constantine William F. Vilas Myron T. Herrick Ring Lardner Horace Wells Winfield S. Stratton James Lick Floyd Bennett David Belasco John S. Bassett Joseph A. Holmes Luther S. Kelly Charles N. McGroarty Thomas M. Cooley John Evans Samovar (ex-SS Frank D. Phinney) William H. Allen Melville E. Stone Henry V. Alvarado Sambre (ex-SS George Inness) H. G. Blasdel Thomas C. Power William Matson Brander Matthews William Keith Joseph K. Toole Jeremiah M. Daily Mary Patten Hiram Bingham William D Burnham Antoine Saugrain Stephen W Kearny James Rowan Richard Moczkowski John Reed Vachel Lindsay Michael Casey Murat Halstead Henry Wells James J. 0'Kelly Reinhold Richter William Sharon John G. North Simon Bamberger Cyrus T. Brady Samuel Brannon Chief Charlot Casper S. Yost William J. Palmer Peter Cooper Hewitt Ethan A. Hitchcock Mary Bickerdyke William W. Campbell Michael C. Kerr Harry Leon Wilson John W. Meldrum Clyde L. Seavey William A. Coulter Louis Pasteur William C. Ralston Lawrence Gianella George H. Powell Jose J Acosta Heber M. Creel Millen Griffith Otis Skinner John Sherman Henry R. Schoolcraft Joseph E Wing Harriet Monroe Frank J. Cuhel Daulton Mann John Colter Mary M. Dodge Emile Berliner Charles G. Coutant John W. Hoyt Wayne MacVeagh Samwash (ex-SS Harmon Judson) Henry M. Teller Jeremiah M. Rusk Benjamin H. Brewster Charles E. Smith Samore (ex-SS Charles Devens) Louis A. Sengteller Donald M. Dickinson Augustus Thomas George Sterling William H. Moody Henry C. Payne George Von L. Meyer James D. Phelan Otto Mears Frank Norris Francis M. Smith Frank A. Munsey Frederic A. Eilers William S. Clark Samuel W. Williston Edgar W. Nye Frank C. Emerson John W. Foster Norman Hapgood Bernardo O'Higgins Norman E. Mack Henry H. Blood John Swett Vernon L. Parrington George K. Fitch Francis A. Wardwell Kate Douglas Wiggin David Hewes Ferdinand A Silcox Sara Teasdale James King R. F. Peckham Peter Trumble Rowe Keith Vawter James G. Maguire Robert Louis Stevenson Francisco M Quinones Ferdinand Westdahl William F. Empey Alexander Majors Jan Pieterszoon Coen Augustin Daly James H. Breasted Walter Wyman John Roach Henry Adams George Coggeshall John lsaacson Silvestre Escalante George Clement Perkins Gilbert M. Hitchcock Henry White Emmet D. Boyle Alexander Woolcott E. A. Christenson Henry J. Waters William E Ritter Joe Harris Mello Franco William Allen White Stephen Hopkins Cecil G. Sellers Norman J. Colman William Sproule John L. Stoddard Frank H. Dodd Mary Walker J. Maurice Thompson Walter Williams Mary A. Livermore George Crile Ralph T. O'Neil George B. McFarland William H. Clagett Jose Pedro Varela Samuel L. Cobb Edward P. Ripley Charles J. Colden Henry T. Scott Ovid Butler Jay Cooke Terry E. Stephenson Thomas F. Hunt George E. Goodfellow Justo Arosemena Samuel Gompers Benjamin Warner Seaman A. Knapp James Rolph Antonin Dvorak Albert A. Robinson Richard B. Moore Alexander Wilson Jose C. Barbosa Alexander Mitchell J. C. Osgood Frank H. Evers James Oliver Curwood Edward G. Acheson Francis Wilson Claus Spreckles David Lubin Frank J. Sprague Jean P. Chouteau Julia L. Dumont Robert G. Cousins George B. Porter William Ford Nichols Lillian Wald George Luks William Vaughn Moody Oliver Kelley Abram S. Hewitt William Peffer Ada Rehan Uriah M Rose John W Burgess Moses G. Farer Alfred C. True William B. Leeds Francisco Morazan William D. Boyce W. B. Rodgers Carl B. Eielson Alice H. Rice Elwood Haynes Nathan S. Davis Morgan Robertson John Hope Daniel G. Reid Cornelius Vanderbilt James Devereux John H. Thomas Percy E. Foxworth Carl G. Barth Edwin C. Musick Sara Bache Hans Heg Franz Sigel Arthur A. Penn Allen Johnson George A. Pope Joseph J. Kinyoun Juan Pablo Duarte John F. Shafroth Cleveland Forbes Sidney H. Short E. A. Bryan Henry M. Stephens Willet M. Hays Edward E. Hale Charles John Seghers William J. Gray Amerigo Vespucci George Middlemas Robert D. Carey H. Weir Cook Louis Weule Jose M. Morelos Benjamin Waterhouse William Schirmer J. S. Hutchinson Edward S. Hough E. A. Burnett Wallace R. Farrington Louis Sloss Toussaint L'Ouverture Louis Sullivan Lucien Labaudt James A. Drain Thomas F. Flaherty Robert S. Abbott Benjamin Carpenter Charlotte Cushman Henry Meiggs Mariscal Sucre
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Type VC2-S-AP2 ships Victory Ships	Legion Victory Salina Victory Hastings Victory Elko Victory Durango Victory Devils Lake Victory Berkeley Victory Anchorage Victory Colorado Springs Victory Muncie Victory Elgin Victory Massillon Victory Hannibal Victory Beatrice Victory Halaula Victory Logan Victory Clearwater Victory Anniston Victory Moline Victory Medina Victory Princeton Victory Bowdoin Victory Wesleyan Victory Xavier Victory Mercer Victory Oberlin Victory Tulane Victory Wake Forest Victory Denison Victory St. John's Victory Virginia City Victory Brigham Victory Hobbs Victory El Reno Victory Lahaina Victory MacMurray Victory Northeastern Victory Fenn Victory Hobart Victory Catawba Victory Hamilton Victory Hillsdale Victory Ripon Victory Carthage Victory Newberry Victory Enid Victory San Mateo Victory Greeley Victory Berwyn Victory Battle Creek Victory Great Falls Victory Lakeland Victory Owensboro Victory Waltham Victory Burbank Victory Gretna Victory Laredo Victory Harvard Victory Yale Victory Middlebury Victory DePauw Victory Bucknell Victory Grinnell Victory Mount Holyoke Victory Duke Victory Fordham Victory Citadel Victory Berea Victory St. Lawrence Victory Central Victory Swarthmore Victory Carleton Victory Loyola Victory Purdue Victory Mills Victory Barnard Victory Radcliffe Victory Drexel Victory Alfred Victory Pan American Victory Trinity Victory Park Victory Fisk Victory Grove City Victory Hope Victory Lafayette Victory Marquette Victory Hunter Victory Augustana Victory Berry Victory Drake Victory Phillips Victory New World Victory Adelphi Victory Drury Victory Allegheny Victory Earlham Victory Asbury Victory Canton Victory Lindenwood Victory
Greenville Victory-class cargo ship VC2-S-AP3 ship	Haiti Victory
Norwalk-class cargo ship Type VC2-S-AP3 cargo ship	Victoria (ex-SS Ethiopia Victory)
Type VC2-S-AP3 cargo ships	Australia Victory Ethiopia Victory India Victory Iraq Victory Costa Rica Victory Cuba Victory Honduras Victory Haiti Victory Guatemala Victory Nicaragua Victory
Haskell-class attack transports Type VC2-S-AP5 ships	Sarasota Sherburne Sibley Mifflin Talladega Tazewell Telfair Missoula Montrose Mountrail Natrona Navarro Neshoba New Kent Noble Okaloosa Okanogan Oneida Pickaway Pitt Randall Bingham
General G. O. Squier-class transport ships Type C4-S-A1 ships	General G. O. Squier General T. H. Bliss General J. R. Brooke General O. H. Ernst General R. L. Howze General W. M. Black General H. L. Scott General S. D. Sturgis General C. G. Morton General R. E. Callan General M. B. Stewart General A. W. Greely General C. H. Muir General H. B. Freeman General H. F. Hodges General Harry Taylor General W. F. Hase General E. T. Collins General M. L. Hersey General J. H. McRae General M. M. Patrick General W. C. Langfitt General Omar Bundy General R. M. Blatchford General LeRoy Eltinge General A. W. Brewster General D. E. Aultman General C. C. Ballou General W. G. Haan General Stuart Heintzelman
Marine Adder-class transport ship Type C4-S-A3 ship	Marine Adder
Type C4-S-A3 ships	Marine Perch Marine Swallow
Type C4-S-A4 ships	Marine Leopard Marine Snapper
LST-1-class tank landing ships Type S3-M-K2 ships	LST-476 LST-477 / LST(H)-477 LST-478 LST-479 LST-480 LST-481 LST-482 / LST(H)-482 / Branch County LST-483 / Brewster County LST-484 LST-485 LST-486 / LST(H)-486 LST-487 LST-488 / LST(H)-488 / T-LST-488
Achelous-class repair ships Type S2-S2-AQ1 ships	Amycus (ex-LST-489) Agenor (ex-LST-490)
Tacoma-class patrol frigates Type S2-S2-AQ1 ships	Tacoma Sausalito Hoquiam Pasco Albuquerque Everett Pocatello Brownsville Grand Forks Casper Pueblo Grand Island
Alamosa-class cargo ships Type C1-M-AV1 ships	Alamosa Alcona Amador Antrim Autauga Beaverhead Beltrami Blount Brevard Bullock Cabell Caledonia Fairfield Faribault Fentress Flagler
Miscellaneous Auxiliary Type C1-M-AV1 ships	Sgt. Curtis F. Shoup (ex-Spindle Eye)
Type C1-M-AV1 ships	Square Sinnet Gunner's Knot Mooring Knot Marlingspike Hitch Terminal Knot Spool Sinnet Reeving Eye

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