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DD-113 / APD-25 Rathburne


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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) - World War I Victory Medal (with Destroyer clasp)
Second Row - American Defense Service Medal (with Destroyer clasp) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (6)
Third Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippine Liberation Medal
Wickes Class Destroyer:
  • Laid down, 12 July 1917, at William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Launched, 27 October 1917
  • Commissioned USS Rathburne (Destroyer No. 113), 24 June 1918, CDR. Ward R. Wortman in command
  • Designated (DD-113) 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned, 12 February 1923, at San Diego, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Diego
  • Recommissioned 8 February 1930
  • Converted to a High-speed Transport at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, WA.
  • During WWII Rathburne was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Western Caroline Islands operation Manila Bay - Bicol operation
    Leyte operation Iwo Jima operation
    Luzon operation Okinawa Gunto operation

  • Redesignated (APD-25), 20 May 1944
  • Reverted (DD-113) 20 July 1945
  • Decommissioned, 2 November 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 28 November 1945
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping in November 1946 to Northern Metals Co., Philadelphia, PA.
  • Rathburne earned six battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,060 t.
    Length 314' 5"
    Beam 31' 8"
    Draft 8' 6"
    Speed 36 kts.
    Complement 101
    Boats 4 LCP(L) landing craft
    Armament
    three single 4"/50 gun mounts
    two single 40mm AA gun mounts
    five single 20mm AA gun mounts
    one depth charge track
    four depth charge projectors
    Propulsion geared turbines, two propellers, 24,200shp
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    Rathburne 28k Rathburne (APD-25) underway, date and location unknown. CWO3 Curt Clark, USN Ret.
    Secretary/Treasurer American APD Corporation
    View the Rathburne (APD-25)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    American APD Corporation
    Four Stack APD Veterans

    Contact: CWO3 Curt Clark Secretary/Treasurer
    Address: 3384 Grim Ave., San Diego, CA 92104
    Phone: 619-282-0971
    E-mail: apdsec@cox.net
    Reunion Schedule
    2008 Reno, Nevada. Site and date to be determined
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    "The Green Dragons" Four-stack APD destroyer-transports in World War Two
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    Last Updated 21 December3 2007