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AP-92 / APA-47 Lamar

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Juliet - Victor - Hotel NJVH

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 (5) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippine Liberation Medal (2)

Bayfield Class Attack Transport:

Laid down, 31 March 1943, as a Maritime Commission type (C3-S-A2) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 431) at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS.

Launched, 28 August 1943

Acquired by the Navy, 10 November 1943

Placed in partial commission, 10 November 1943 through 22 November 1943, LCDR. J. H. Budd in command, for transit to her fitting out yard, Todd-Erie Basin, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Recommissioned USS Lamar (APA-47), 6 April 1944, CAPT. Bruce K. Culver in command

During WWII Lamar was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:

**Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Marianas Islands operations Assault and occupation of Guam, 21 July 1944	Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 to 4 April 1945
Leyte operations Leyte landings, Dulag, 20 to 21 October and 18 November 1944	Manila Bay-Bicol operations Zambales-Subic Bay, San Narciso landing, 29 January 1945
Luzon operations Lingayen Gulf landings, 9 to 11 January 1945	.

Returned to the Maritime Commission, 26 June 1946, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet

Decommissioned, 7 July 1946, at Beaumont, TX.

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1946

Commercial History

Leased to Luckenbach SS Corp., 9 April 1948

Purchased by Luckenbach SS Corp., at Baltimore Md., 19 January 1949, renamed SS J.L. Luckenbach

Sold to Global Bulk Transportation Corp. in July 1979, renamed SS Evergreen Trader

Final Disposition, sold, 27 May 1971, for scrapping in Taiwan to Tung Ho Steel Enterprise Corp.

Lamar received five battle stars for World War II service

Specifications:
Displacement 8,100 t.(lt), 16,100 t.(fl)
Length 492' 6"
Beam 69' 6"
Draft 26' 6"
Speed 18 kts.
Complement 51 Officers, 524 Enlisted
Flag Accommodation 43 Officers, 108 Enlisted
Troop Accommodations 80 Officers, 1,146 Enlisted
Cargo Capacity 175,000 cu. ft., 4,700 t.
Boats

twelve LCVPs

four LCM (Mk-6)s

three LCP(L) (MK-IV)s
Armament

Two single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts, one fore and one aft

two single 40mm AA gun mounts

two twin 40mm AA gun mounts

eighteen single 20mm AA gun mounts
Propulsion Westinghouse geared drive turbine, 2 Foster-Wheeler D-type boilers, 1 propeller, Design shaft horsepower 8,500

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
76k	Lamar (APA-47) underway, date and location unknown US Navy photo	George W. Jones
179k	Lamar (APA-47) underway, date and location unknown US Navy photo	George W. Jones
71k	Lamar (APA-47) underway while a part of the Guam amphibious invasion force, July 1944. Photo taken from Ringgold (DD-500), Dwight Spayth collection.	John Chiquoine
61k	Lamar (APA-47) underway, date and location unknown US Navy photo	George W. Jones

View the Lamar (APA-47)
DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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