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LST-773 / AGP-16 Antigone

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Portunus Class Motor Torpedo Boat Tender
  • Authorized as LST-773
  • Reclassified a Motor Torpedo Boat Tender, 14 August 1944
  • Laid down, 15 August 1944, at Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., Seneca, IL.
  • Launched, 27 October 1944
  • Commissioned in reduced status, 27 October 1944 at Algiers, LA.
  • Decommissioned, 5 December 1944, at Maryland Drydock Co., Baltimore, MD., for conversion to a Motor Torpedo Boat Tender
  • Recommissioned, USS Antigone (AGP-16), 14 May 1945, LCDR. Whitson M. Jones in command
  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 10 June 1947
  • Final Disposition, transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 6 February 1948 and simultaneously sold to Kaiser & Co., for scrapping
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,179 t.(lt) 4,100 t.(fl)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Draft 11' 2"
    Speed 11.6 kts.
    Complement 287
    Boats two LCVP
    Armament
    two single 40mm AA gun mounts
    eight single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion two General Motors 12-567 Diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
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