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LST-1094 / ARV(E)-4 Chloris

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 - National Defense Service Medal
Aventinus Class Aircraft Repair Ship (Engine):
  • Authorized as LST-1094
  • Redesignated Aircraft Repair Ship (Engine) ARV(E)-4, 8 December 1944
  • Laid down, 17 January 1945 at American Bridge Co., Ambrige, PA.
  • Launched, 21 April 1945
  • Commissioned, USS Chloris (ARV(E)-4), 19 June 1945, LT. W.B. Coley, USNR, in command
  • Decommissioned, 18 June 1946, at Green Cove Springs, FL.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs
  • Recommissioned, 5 January 1951
  • Decommissioned, 9 December 1955, at Green Cove Springs
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Green Cove Springs
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 June 1973
  • Sold in 1977 to Monros Shipping Co.S.A. Panama, renamed Avlon,converted to a Ro-Ro ship in 1979
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,110 t.(lt) 4,023 t.(fl)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Draft 11' 2"
    Speed 12 kts.
    Complement 578
    Armament eight 40mm
    Propulsion 2 General Motors 12-567 diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
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    Chloris 18k Chloris (ARV(E)-4 at anchor, date and place unknown. Gunter Krebs
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
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