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LST-956 / ARB-7 Sarpedon

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Aristaeus Class Battle Damage Repair Ship:
  • Laid down as LST-956, 11 July 1944, at Bethlehem Steel Co., Hingham, MA.
  • Redesignated Battle Damage Repair Ship ARB-7, 14 August 1944
  • Launched, 21 August 1944
  • Placed in partial commission for transit to her conversion yard and decommissioned, at Baltimore, MD., 29 November 1944
  • Converted to an Aristaeus Class Battle Damage Repair Ship at Maryland Drydock Co., Baltimore, MD.
  • Recommissioned, USS Sarpedon (ARB-7), 10 March 1945
  • Decommissioned, 29 January 1947, at San Diego, CA,
  • Laid up int the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 15 April 1976
  • Sold for scrapping 1 January 1977 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS)
  • Acquired by Phaethon Shipping & Trading Corp. S.A., Panama and renamed Petrola 133
  • Final Disposition, broken up for scrap, 30 May 1989
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,781 t.(lt) 3,700 t.(fl)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Draft 11' 2"
    Speed 12 kts.
    Complement 260
    Armament two 40mm guns, eight 20mm guns
    Propulsion 2 General Motors 12-567 diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
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