On 18 February 1956, " Achernar " was decommissioned, placed in reserve, and berthed at Orange, Texas.
12.
Its disappearance in April ( the 10th month ) and the appearance of the star Achernar signals the beginning of the cold season.
13.
For the next two months, " Achernar " continued making trips from Naples and Oran to points along the southern coast of France.
14.
Fires broke out, and the ship began listing slightly to port . " Achernar " lost five crew members killed and 41 injured.
15.
The squadron took its first casualties when 5 squadron Marines were injured when their transport ship " USS Achernar " was hit by a kamikaze.
16.
Until about March 2000, Achernar and Fomalhaut were the two first-magnitude stars furthest in angular distance from any other first-magnitude star in the celestial sphere.
17.
On 4 August, " Achernar " left San Francisco to return to Pearl Harbor, where she arrived a week later and immediately began discharging her cargo.
18.
The "'Morse Nunataks "'( ) are isolated rock nunataks standing south of Mount Achernar, between Lewis Cliff and the MacAlpine Hills in Antarctica.
19.
Following a short availability period, " Achernar " went to Port Hueneme, California on 18 January 1951 to onload cargo and personnel for transportation to the Aleutians.
20.
Ptolemy described Theta Eridani as a first-magnitude star, which some have taken to be in fact Achernar, which today appears just above the horizon in Alexandria where Ptolemy lived.
