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DE-592 / APD-102 Rednour


USS Rednour (APD-102) was transferred to Mexico, renamed ARM Coahuila
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive - 27 May 1945, Okinawa)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Personnel Awards

Purple Hearts (3-KIA, 13-WIA, Okinawa, 27 May 1945)
Crosley Class High-speed Transport:
  • Laid down, 30 December 1943, as (DE-592), a Rudderow Class Destroyer Escort at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc, Hingham, MA.
  • Launched, 12 February 1944
  • Redesignated a Crosley Class High-speed Transport, 17 July 1944
  • Commissioned USS Rednour (APD-102), 30 December 1944
  • During World War II Rednour was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaign;
  • Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, FL, 24 July 1946
  • laid up in Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs
  • Towed later to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 March 1967
  • Transferred to Mexico, December 1969, renamed ARM Coahuila
  • Struck from the Mexican Navy List in 2002
  • Rednour received one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,400 t.
    Length 306' (ovl.)
    Beam 37"
    Draft 12' 7" (limiting)
    Speed 23.6 kts. (trial)
    Range 6,000 nautical miles at 12 kts.
    Complement 12-15 Officers, 189-192 Enlisted
    Troop Accommodations 12 Officers, 150 Enlisted
    Boats 4 LCVP landing craft
    Troop Accoutrements 6 1/4 ton trucks, 2 1 ton trucks, 4 ammunition carts, 4 pack howitzers
    Storage
    Ammunition 6,000 cu. ft.
    General Cargo 3,500 cu. ft.
    Gasoline 1,000 cu. ft.
    Armament
    one 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    three twin 40 mm gun mounts
    six single 20 mm gun mounts
    two depth charge tracks
    Propulsion two Foster-Wheeler DR boilers, two GE Turbines, (turbo-electric drive), two shafts, Shaft horsepower 12,000
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