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AE-24 Pyro

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign: November - Echo - November - Hotel
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Unit Commendation (2) - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (2)
Second Row - National Defense Service Medal (2) - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (6-Vietnam, 4-Persian Gulf) - Vietnam Service Medal (9)
Third Row - Southwest Asia Service Medal - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)
Nitro Class Ammunition Ship:
  • Laid down, 21 October 1957, at Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, Inc., Sparrows Point, MD.
  • Launched, 5 November 1958
  • Commissioned, USS Pyro (AE-24), 24 July 1959, at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA.
  • Decommissioned, 31 May 1994
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Bremerton, WA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 8 April 1997
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for disposal
  • Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 9,050 t.(lt) 15,688 t.(fl)
    Length 512'
    Beam 72'
    Draft 27'
    Speed 19 kts.
    Complement 28 officers, 331 enlisted
    Armament four twin 3"/50 gun mounts
    Propulsion steam turbine, single shaft, 16,000shp
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    Pyro 57k Pyro (AE-24) exiting San Francisco Bay, date unknown. USS Pyro (AE-24) web site
    Pyro 53k Pyro (AE-24) underway, date and place unknown.
    ©Marine Photos, San Diego, CA.    		 Mike Smolinski
    Pyro 99k Pyro (AE-24) steaming alongside an unidentified aircraft carrier, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine April 1966.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Pyro 69k Pyro (AE-24) during underway replenishment with Enterprise (CVN-65), circa 1970s, place unknown. Photo by Dr. Kenneth Hartman
    Pyro 66k Pyro (AE-24) during underway replenishment with Enterprise (CVN-65), circa 1970s, place unknown. Photo by Dr. Kenneth Hartman
    Pyro 84k Pyro (AE-24) underway, circa 1970s, place unknown. Photo by Dr. Kenneth Hartman
    Pyro 63k Pyro (AE-24) underway while enroute to Kodiak Island, AK., date unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine January 1983.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Pyro 171k Pyro (AE-24) underway while enroute to Kodiak Island, AK., date unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine January 1983.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Pyro 62k Pyro (AE-24) at Kodiak Island, AK., date unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine January 1983.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Pyro 79k Pyro (AE-24) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    USS Pyro AE-1 / AE-24
    Nitro Class Ammunition Ships of the United States Navy
    "AE" Sailors Association
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