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DE-597 / APD-107 Earle B. Hall

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Uniform - Charlie - Kilo

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Expeditionary Medal (1-Cuba)
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Third Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Cuba)

Crosley Class High-speed Transport:

Laid down as (DE-597), a Rudderow Class Destroyer Escort, at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Co, Hingham, MA.

Launched, 1 March 1944

Redesignated a Crosley Class High-speed Transport, 17 July 1944

Commissioned USS Earle B. Hall (APD-107), 15 May 1945, LCDR. E. J. Haddon, USNR, in command

Decommissioned, 27 September 1946, at Mayport FL.

Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Green Cove Springs, FL.

Recommissioned, 7 December 1950, at Jacksonville FL.

Decommissioned, 13 September 1957

Laid up in the Reserve Fleet

Recommissioned, 29 November 1961, at Brooklyn Navy Yard

Decommissioned, date unknown

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 February 1965

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping 28 January 1966

Earle B. Hall was nicknamed the "Iron Porpoise" (Contributed by Jack Dawkins)

Specifications:
Displacement 1,400 t.
Length 306'
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

1 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount

3 twin 40 mm gun mounts

6 single 20 mm gun mounts

2 depth charge tracks
Propulsion

2 Combustion Engineering DR boilers

2 GE Turbines, (turbo-electric drive)

2 shafts, Shaft horsepower 12,000

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
118k	Earle B. Hall (APD-107) underway after recommissioning in 1950. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, August 1954	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
107k	Earle B. Hall (APD-107) underway, date and place unknown. US Navy photo.	James G. Plough
107k	Earle B. Hall (APD-107) moored pierside, Norfolk, VA., circa 1951. QMS/2C George Panos in the foreground.	George Panos, QMS2C USS Earle B. Hall
57k	Earle B. Hall (APD-107) underway enroute to the Caribbean, 1951.	Peter Mafilios, QMQ3.
84k	Earle B. Hall (APD-107) underway in the Caribbean, circa 1962-63. Photo taken from Rankin (AKA-103.	Thomas L. McLain
107k	Earle B. Hall (APD-107) alongside Rankin (AKA-103 while underway in the Caribbean, circa 1962-64.	Thomas L. McLain
99k	Earle B. Hall (APD-107) and Rankin (AKA-103 conducting a highline operation while underway in the Caribbean, circa 1962-64.	Thomas L. McLain
94k	Earle B. Hall (APD-107) underway off NAB Little Creek, VA, August 1964.	© Richard Leonhardt

View the Earle B Hall (APD-107)
DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Destroyer Escort Sailors Association

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