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DE-722 / APD-119 / LPR-119 Beverly W. Reid

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American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Rudderow Class Destroyer Escort / Crosley Class High-speed Transport:
  • Laid down, 5 January 1944, as (DE-722), a Rudderow Class Destroyer Escort at Dravo, Corp., Neville Island, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Launched, 4 March 1944
  • Redesignated a (APD-119) 17 July 1944
  • Ferried to Orange, TX. for fitting out as a High-speed Transport at Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, TX.
  • Commissioned USS Beverly W. Reid (APD-119), 25 June 1945, at Orange, TX., LCDR. Gordon D. Kissam, USNR, in command
  • Decommissioned, 5 May 1947, at Green Cove Springs, FL.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Green Cove Springs
  • Retrieved from the Reserve Fleet and towed to Norfolk, VA. by Liddle (APD-60) for recommissioning
  • Recommissioned, 18 March 1967, with the crew of Liddle, LCDR. Aloysius G. Hennessey, Jr., in command
  • Designation changed to Amphibious Transport, Small (LPR-119) 1 July 1969
  • Decommissioned, 14 November 1969
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 15 September 1974
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 18 August 1975, to J. R. Steel Inc., Houston, TX., for $79,002
    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
    1 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    3 twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    8 single 20mm AA gun mounts
    2 depth charge tracks
    Propulsion
    2 GE Turbines (turbo-electric drive)
    2 boilers
    2 shafts, 12,000 shaft horsepower
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    Liddle 68k Liddle (APD-60) and the soon to be recommissioned Beverly W. Reid (APD-119) moored pierside, pier 11, Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, VA., circa November 1966. Robert Narvaez
    Beverly W Reid 96k Beverly W. Reid (APD-119) underway, thirty miles off the Cuban coast shortly after recommissioning in 1967. Don Scott, YNCS(SS), USN, Ret
    Beverly W Reid 46k Beverly W. Reid (APD-119) at anchor, date and location unknown. Robert Hurst
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