Cargo Ship (AKA) 92
Former attack cargo ship (AKA) or thc merchant C2-S-B1 type. Launched on 28 June 1944; commissioned as AKA 92 on 30 September 1944.
Builder: D.D. Moore Company, Oakland, California.
WYANDOT: A county in Ohio. Named after its former inhabitants, the Wyandot Indians.
SHIPS Complement: 423 personnel (35 officers, 355 enlisted men) (as AKA).
Maritime Service: \Vas strengthened and winterized for arctic service.
WYANDOT saw service in the Pacific from the time of her commissioning to the end of World War II.
It was during this period that WYANDOT participated in the invasion of Okinawa. At the war’s end, she remained a member of the Pacific Fleet until December 1945, at which time she became a member of the Atlantic Fleet and operated off the East Coast until July 1947, when she departed for Arctic Operations.
in 1955, WYANDOT was one of the major units of Task Force Forty-Three which conducted operation Deepfreeze in the Antarctic in 1955-56 under the leadership of ADM. R.E. BYRD. When the WYANDOT was making another Antarctic voyage in 1959, she carried on deck and transported hack to the states, the first plane ever to land at the South Pole, a Navy R4D aircraft named Que Sera Sera.
For her services in she fleet, WYANDOT is authorized to display the American Campaign Medal Ribbon with one battle star, World War II Victory Medal, and the national Defense Service Ribbon
In October of 1957, the WYANDOT was removed from the naval reserve fleet and sold at auction for salvage material.
USS WYANDOT