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USS Orestes (AGP-10)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Juliet - Xray - Bravo
 NJXB
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive - 30 December 1944) -,American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal (1)
Personnel Awards

Purple Heart (45 KIA and WIA, 30 December 1944)
Varuna Class Motor Torpedo Boat Tender: Laid down as LST-135, 8 July 1943, at Chicago Bridge and Iron Co., Seneca IL.
  • Redesignated a Motor Torpedo Boat Tender, 3 November 1943
  • Launched 16 November 1943
  • Converted at Maryland Drydock Co., Baltimore, MD.
  • Commissioned USS Orestes (AGP-10), 25 April 1944, LT. Kenneth N. Mueller in command
  • During WWII USS Orestes was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Bismarck Archipelago operation
    Designated duty in connection with motor torpedo boat operations, February to May 1944     		Manila Bay - Bicol operations
    Zambales - Subic Bay, 29 to 31 January 1945

  • Decommissioned, 29 April 1946, at Oakland, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 23 April 1947
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 15 March 1948
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, date unknown, to Walter W Johnson Co., San Francisco, CA.
  • USS Orestes received two battle stares for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 3,960 t.(lt) 4,100 t.(fl)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Draft 11' 2"
    Speed 11.6 kts.
    Complement
    Officers 37
    Enlisted 304
    Largest Boom Capacity 50 t.
    Boats two LCVP
    Armament
    two quad 40mm AA gun mounts
    eight single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Fuel Capacities
    Diesel 4,480 Bbls
    Gasoline 62,000 Gals
    Propulsion
    two General Motors 12-567A Diesel engines
    single Falk Main Reduction Gears
    Ship's Service Generators
    three Diesel-drive 100Kw 120V/240V D.C.
    two Diesel-drive 100Kw 450V A.C.
    two propellers, 1,800 shp, twin rudders
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    Orestes 119k USS Orestes (AGP-10) underway in Chesapeake Bay off Port Covington, Baltimore, MD., 11 May 1944, just after completion of conversion.
    US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, photo # 19-N-66058, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 Robert Hurst/font>
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical and Heritage Command
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Fleet Reserve Association
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