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DE-794 / APD-86 / LPR-86 Hollis

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (1) - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal
Charles Lawrence Class High-speed Transport:
  • Laid down (date unknown), as a Buckley Class Destroyer Escort at Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Orange TX.
  • Launched, 11 September 1943
  • Commissioned USS Hollis (DE-794), 25 January 1944, LCDR. G. D. Kissam in command
  • Converted to a Charles Lawrence Class High-speed Transport at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia PA.
  • Redesignated (APD-86), 24 January 1945
  • Decommissioned, 5 May 1947, at Green Cove Springs, FL.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet
  • Recommissioned, 6 April 1951
  • Decommissioned, 16 October 1956, at Green Cove Springs FL.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange, TX.
  • Redesignated Amphibious Transport, Small (LPR-86), 1 January 1969
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 15 September 1974
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 1 July 1975
  • Hollis earned one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,400 t
    Length 306' (oa)
    Beam 36' 10"
    Draft 13' 6" (max)
    Speed 24 kts.
    Range 6,000 nautical miles at 12 kts.
    Complement 186
    Troop Accommodations 162
    Boats 4 LCVP landing craft
    Armament
    one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    three twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    eight single 20mm AA gun mounts
    two depth charge tracks
    Propulsion 2 GE Turbines, (turbo-electric drive), 2 boilers 2 shafts, 12,000 shaft horsepower
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    Hollis 24k Hollis (APD-86) at anchor, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
    Hollis 54k Hollis (APD-86) moored pierside, Norfolk, VA., circa 1951. Note the mattresses hanging on the ships railings. This was part of the normal weekly shipboard routine to "air bedding." George Panos, QMS2C USS Earle B. Hall
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