LOS ALAMOS AFDB 7

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

ABSD-4 Class Advance Base Section Dock Constructed of seven Advance Base Docks ABD-37, ABD-38, ABD-39, ABD-40, ABD-51, ABD-52 and ABD-58 Erected and assembled into (ABSD-7) at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., completed in March 1945 USS ABSD-7 Commissioned 6 January 1945 - Inactivated 9 April 1946 AFDB-7 Reclassified Auxiliary Floating Drydock (AFDB-7) August 1946 Disassembled and towed to Green Cove Springs FL. for lay up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet January 1947 Sections "A", "B", "C", and "D" of (AFDB-7) towed to Holy Loch, Scotland, 1961 LOS ALAMOS AFDB-7 Placed in service as Los Alamos (AFDB-7) 10 November 1961 Deactivated, 1 February 1992, at Holy Loch, Scotland Disassembled and its sections returned to the United States In 1996 six of the original ABSD-7 sections transferred to the Brownsville Navigation District, TX. Another had been turned over to the U.S. Army in 1968 Current Disposition, in operation at Keppel AmFELS Shipyard, Brownsville, TX., servicing ships and oil rigs Renamed SOLOMAN ORTIZ Dry Dock

Naval Covers

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Postmarks

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

 

Locy Type 2t(n+u) USS Canopus AS 34

1975-09-17

N/A

Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson.

 

Other Information

LOS ALAMOS has earned the Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (3 awards), the Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (5 awards), the American Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal and the National Defense Service Medal during her Naval career.

NAMESAKE - A town in north central New Mexico; site of research and development of nuclear weapons during World War II, and of the first explosion of an atomic bomb 16 July 1945.

 

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