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LST-976 / ARB-8 Telamon

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Aristaeus Class Battle Damage Repair Ship:
  • Before construction LST-976 was redesignated Battle Damage Repair Ship ARB-8 on 28 April 1944
  • Laid down, 5 December 1944, at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., Hingham, MA.
  • Launched, 10 January 1945
  • Commissioned USS Telamon (ARB-8) 5 February 1945
  • Decommissioned, for conversion to a Battle Damage Repair Ship at Maryland Drydock Co., Baltimore, MD. (date unknown)
  • Recommissioned, 1 June 1946
  • Decommissioned, 11 September 1945
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet
  • Recommissioned in the spring of 1946
  • Decommissioned, 20 May 1947, at San Diego, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 June 1973
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 1 March 1974, by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,781 t.(lt) 3,960 t.(fl)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Draft 11' 2"
    Speed 11.6 kts.
    Complement 286
    Armament two 40mm guns, eight 20mm guns
    Propulsion two General Motors 12-567 diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
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    Telamon 27k Telamon (ARB-8) underway, date and place unknown. Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
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