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APA / LPA-213 Mountrail


Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Papa - Papa - Tango
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons




Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon - Navy Expeditionary Medal (1-Cuba) - American Campaign Medal
Second Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Third Row - National Defense Service Medal - Korean Service Medal (3) - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Cuba)
Fourth Row - Philippines Liberation Medal - United Nations Service Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal
Haskell Class Attack Transport:
  • Laid down (date unknown) as a Maritime Commission type (VC2-S-AP5) hull, under a Maritime Commission contract, at Permanente Metals Corp., Richmond, CA.
  • Launched, 20 September 1944
  • Commissioned USS Mountrail (APA-213), 16 November 1944, CDR. R. R. Stevens in command
  • During World War II Mountrail was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaign:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Campaign and Dates
    Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 26 March 1945
  • Decommissioned, 12 July 1946. at Stockton, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Stockton Group
  • Recommissioned, 9 September 1950
  • During the Korean War Mountrail participated in the following campaigns:
    Korean War Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    First UN Counter Offensive
    5 to 12 February 1951     		Korean Defense Summer-Fall 1952
    1 to 19 August 1952
    27 August to 4 September 1952
    17 to 18 October 1952
    11 to 19 November 1952
    Communist China Spring Offensive
    11 to14 May 1951     		.

  • Decommissioned, 1 October 1955, at Long Beach, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet
  • Recommissioned, 22 November 1961
  • Redesignated Amphibious Transport (LPA-213), 1 January 1969
  • Decommissioned (date unknown)
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 December 1976
  • Returned to the Maritime Administration for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet
  • Final Disposition, sold by MARAD, 18 September 1989, fate unknown
  • Mountrail received one battle star for World War II service and three for Korean 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
    one single 5"/38 dual-purpose gun mount
    four twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    ten single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion
    one Westinghouse geared turbine
    two Babcock and Wilcox header-type boilers
    single propeller
    Design shaft horsepower 8,500
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    Mountrail 46k Mountrail (APA-213), date and location unknown. Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
    Web site
    Mountrail 45k Mountrail (APA-213), at anchor, date and location unknown.
    Russ Padden webmaster
    Amphibious Forces WWII Web Site
    Mountrail 150k Painting Mountrail (APA-213)'s hull, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine August 1954
    Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Mountrail 85k Mountrail (APA-213) in 1967 during an underway refueling from Waccamaw (AO-109), location unknown. Bill Guhl USS Waccamaw
    Mountrail 95k Mountrail (APA-213) underway, date and location unknown. Don Elliott for his father George "Dean" Elliott SK3/c USS Mountrail 1952-55
    View the Mountrail (APA/LPA-213)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Amphibious Forces WWII- USS Mountrail APA 213
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