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USS Callisto (AGP-15)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Juliet - Yankee - India
 NJYI
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Portunus Class Motor Torpedo Boat Tender:
  • Authorized as LST-966
  • Reclassified as a Motor Torpedo Boat Tender, 14 August 1944
  • Laid down, 31 October 1944, at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipbuilding Co., Baltimore, MD.
  • Launched, 29 November 1944
  • Placed in reduced commission, 22 December 1944, for transit to her fitting out yard, ENS. G. A. Johnson in command
  • Commissioned in full USS Callisto (AGP-15), 12 June 1945, LCDR. Charles W. Brooks, USNR, in command.
  • Decommissioned, 9 May 1946, laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 23 April 1947
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration, 14 May 1948, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet
  • Sold for merchant service, date unknown, renamed M/V Elena
  • Renamed M/V Daytona, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, lost, cause unknown, 20 November 1955
    Specifications:
    Displacement 4,100 t.
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Draft 11' 2"
    Speed 11.6 kts.
    Complement
    Officers 41
    Enlisted 245
    Largest Boom Capacity 60 t.
    Boats 2 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 12-568A 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, 1,800shp
    twin rudders
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    Callisto 97k USS Callisto (AGP-15) underway in Chesapeake Bay off Port Covington, Baltimore, MD., 19 June 1945, just after completion of conversion. This ship had one "A" frame hoist, to port.
    US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, photo # 19-N-85774, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 Robert Hurst
    Callisto 20k USS Callisto (AGP-15) underway, date and location unknown. Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
    USS Callisto (AGP-15)
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01ENS. Johnson, G. A.22 December 1944 - ?
    02LCDR. Brooks, Charles Welles, USNR12 June 1945 - 16 September 1945
    03LT. Norton, John H., USNR16 September 1945 - 20 December 1945
    04LT. Whitney, William W., USNR20 December 1945 - 9 May 1946
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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