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APD-136 Carpellotti

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Uniform - Echo - Juliet
Voice Call Sign "Giggle Xray"
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal
Crosley Class High-speed Transport:
  • Laid down, 10 October 1944, at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, MI.
  • Launched, 10 March 1945
  • Commissioned USS Carpellotti (APD-136), 30 July 1945, LCDR. J. V. Brown, USNR, in command
  • Decommissioned, 21 April 1958, at Norfolk, Va.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Sold for commercial service, 20 June 1960, for $141,474 to Diamond Manufacturing Co., Savannah, GA, and used in the construction of the Norfolk-Portsmouth VA. bridge and tunnel project
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping by Diamond Manufacturing Co. in 1966 to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, MD,
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,400 t.
    Length 306'
    Beam 37'
    Draft 12' 7" (limiting)
    Speed 23.6 kts. (trial)
    Range 6,000 nautical miles at 12 kts.
    Complement 12-15 Officers, 189-192 Enlisted
    Troop Accommodations 12 Officers, 150 Enlisted
    Boats 4 LCVP landing craft
    Troop Accoutrements
    6 1/4-ton trucks
    2 1-ton trucks
    4 ammunition carts
    4 pack howitzers
    Storage
    Ammunition 6,000 cu. ft.
    General Cargo 3,500 cu. ft.
    Gasoline 1,000 cu. ft.
    Armament
    1 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    3 twin 40 mm gun mounts
    6 single 20 mm gun mounts
    2 depth charge tracks
    Propulsion
    2 Combustion Engineering DR boilers
    2 GE Turbines, (turbo-electric drive)
    2 shafts, Shaft horsepower 12,000
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    Carpellotti 96k Carpellotti (APD-136) being launched at DeFoe Shipbuilding, 10 March 1945 Submitted by Thomas E Perry, APD-136 Association
    Source DeFoe Shipbuilding, pub March 1945
    Carpellotti 44k Photo of rollover method of shipbuilding used at DeFoe to build Carpellotti (APD-136) Submitted by Thomas E Perry, APD-136 Association
    Source DeFoe Shipbuilding, pub March 1945
    Carpellotti 124k Carpellotti (APD-136) in the Chesapeake Bay, 1946 Submitted by Thomas E Perry, APD-136 Association
    Source CAPT. George E Brandt, USN Ret
    CO 15 Nov 45 to 6 Sep 47
    Carpellotti 53k Carpellotti (APD-136) underway, circa 1947, location unknown. Robert Hurst
    Carpellotti 93k Carpellotti (APD-136) in the Chesapeake Bay, 1947
    US Navy photo    		 Submitted by Thomas E Perry, APD-136 Association
    Source CAPT. Alvin L Gallin, USN Ret
    CO 6 Sep 47 to 13 Aug 49
    Carpellotti 61k Carpellotti (APD-136) going alongside Siboney (CVE-112) to refuel enroute to the Persian Gulf, 14 July 1948
    US Navy photo    		 Submitted by Thomas E Perry, APD-136 Association
    Source CAPT. Alvin L Gallin, USN Ret
    CO 6 Sep 47 to 13 Aug 49
    Carpellotti 33k Carpellotti (APD-136) underway, circa 1952, location unknown. Robert Hurst
    Carpellotti 46k Carpellotti (APD-136) underway, circa 1953, location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Robert Hurst
    Carpellotti 87k Carpellotti (APD-136) at Tangiers, Morocco, April 1955 Submitted by Thomas E Perry, APD-136 Association
    Source Neil Ross MM1 USN USS Carpellotti June 1953-January 1957
    Carpellotti 136k Carpellotti (APD-136) at St Thomas, Virgin Islands, February 1956 Submitted by Thomas E Perry, APD-136 Association
    Source Neil Ross MM1 USN USS Carpellotti June 1953-January 1957
    Carpellotti 118k Carpellotti (APD-136) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, September 1962    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
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