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APA / LPA-154 Lowndes

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, Iwo Jima) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Haskell Class Attack Transport:
  • Laid down (date unknown) as a Maritime Commission type (VC2-S-AP5) hull, under a Maritime Commission contract at Oregon Shipbuilding Group, Portland, OR.
  • Launched, 18 July 1944
  • Acquired by the Navy from the Maritime Commission and Commissioned USS Lowndes (APA-154), 14 September 1944
  • Decommissioned in February 1946, at Norfolk, VA.
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Fort Eustis, VA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1946
  • Reclassified an Amphibious Transport (LPA-154), 1 January 1969
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 17 September 1983
  • Lowndes earned two battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 6,873 t.(lt) 14,837 t.(fl)
    Length 455'
    Beam 62'
    Speed 19 kts.
    Complement 56 Officers 480 Enlisted
    Troop Accommodations 86 Officers 1,475 Enlisted
    Cargo Capacity 150,000 cu. ft, 2,900 tons
    Boats 2 LCM, 12 LCVP, 3 LCPU
    Armament 1 5"/38 dual-purpose gun mount, 4 twin 40mm gun mounts, 10 single 20mm gun mounts
    Propulsion 1 Westinghouse geared turbine, 2 Combustion Engineering header-type boilers, 1 propeller, Design shaft horsepower 8,500
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    Lowndes 34k Lowndes (APA-154) in San Francisco Bay, circa 1944 William B. Nielsen
    in honor his father,
    Howard LeRoy Nielsen, WWII crew member
    Lowndes 49k Lowndes (APA-154) underway, circa 1944-45.
    US Navy photo # NH 83477 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, courtesy D. M. McPherson, 1975.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Lowndes 83k Lowndes (APA-154) in San Francisco Bay, CA., in late 1945 or early 1946. She is returning troops from the Western Pacific to the United States as part of Operation "Magic Carpet.".
    US Navy photo # NH 98739 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, donated by Boatswain's Mate First Class Robert G. Tippins, USN (Retired), 2003.    		 US Naval Historical Center
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