Category: USS Vega (AK-17), United States Navy

Categories: United States Navy Ships

This category contains profiles of those who served aboard the USS Vega (AK-17).
Laid down: 8 July 1918, as SS Lebanon
Launched: 18 July 1919
Acquired: 2 December 1921
Commissioned: 21 December 1921
Decommissioned: 15 January 1946
Struck: 12 March 1946
Honors and awards: 4 battle stars (World War II)
Fate: sold by the Maritime Commission, 6 August 1946, for scrapping to National Metals and Steel Corp.

USS Vega (AK-17), was a Sirius-class cargo ship of the United States Navy, originally the Lebanon — a single-screw, steel-hulled Type 1022 freighter, built under a United States Shipping Board contract at Hog Island, Pennsylvania, by the American International Shipbuilding Co. Laid down on 8 July 1918, the ship was launched on 18 July 1919. Acquired by the Navy on 2 December 1921, she was renamed Vega and given the classification of AK-17. She fitted out for Navy service, and was commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on 21 December 1921, Lt. William H. Newman, USNRF, in command.

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26 Mar 1884 Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States - 07 Dec 1941 photo




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