USS Great Sitkin (AE-17) was a Mount Hood class ammunition ship, which served in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1973. USS Great Sitkin supported...
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to 1962, he commanded the ammunition ship USS Great Sitkin (AE-17). He next commanded the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) from 1963 to 1964. Weinel...
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(AK-42) Ammunition ship – AE (15 + 2AKA) 7 Lassen-class (C2, C2-T, C2-N) USS Lassen (AE-3), Kilauea, Rainier, Shasta (AE-6) Mauna Loa (AE-8), Mazama (AE-9)...
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(AE-13) USS Firedrake (AE-14) USS Vesuvius (AE-15) USS Mount Katmai (AE-16) USS Great Sitkin (AE-17) USS Paricutin (AE-18) USS Diamond Head (AE-19) Fomalhaut-class:...
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time and made one of her longest tows when she pulled ammunition ship USS Great Sitkin (AE-17) 120 miles to Puerto Rico after the ship had gone dead in the...
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SSN-646) USS Grayson (DD-435) SS Green Harbour (AK-2064) USS Great Lakes (AD-30) USS Great Northern (ID-4569/AG-9) USS Great Sitkin (AE-17) USS Great Western...
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December 1942 for the fog-shrouded Aleutian Islands and reached Sand Bay, Great Sitkin Island, 9 January 1943. After conducting escort, ASW, and patrolling...
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exercises were carried out. Practice operations were continued, some in Great Sitkin Island area and cargo was unloaded at Sweeper's Cove. Departing Adak...
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she conducted buoy operations at Adak; carried a scientific party from Great Sitkin Island to Adak; and transported three Navy petty officers to service...
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screen for a transport group as part of a simulated bombardment run on Great Sitkin Island, Aleutian Islands (10–11 August). On 13 August 1943, Brownson...
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