E-AG-153 Compass Island

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Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:

November - Papa - Whiskey - Golf

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Navy Expeditionary Medal (5-Cuba) - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (Cuba)

Compass Island Class Miscellaneous Auxiliary (Navigational Research) Ship:
Laid down as a Maritime Administration type (C4-S-1a) hull under Maritime Commission contract, (MA 26) as SS Garden State Mariner at New York Shipbuilding Corp, Camden, N.J.

Launched, 24 October 1953

Acquired by the Navy 29 March 1956

Commissioned USS Compass Island (E-AG-153), 3 December 1956, CDR. J. A. Dare in command

Decommissioned, 1 May 1980

Transferred to MARAD for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Fort Eustis, VA.

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 October 1981

Permanent title transfer to MARAD, 9 April 1993

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping to Able UK, Hartlepool, Teeside, England, and removed from the Reserve Fleet, 16 October 2003 under tow to the United Kingdom

Specifications:
Displacement 18,000 t.(fl)
Length 563'
Beam 76'
Draft 28'
Speed 20 kts.
Propulsion steam turbine, two boilers, single shaft