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USS Cavallaro (APD-128)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Uniform - Echo - Bravo
 NUEB
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal

USS Cavallaro (APD-128) was transferred to South Korea and renamed ROKS Kyung-Nam (APD-81)
Crosley Class High-speed Transport:
  • Laid down, 28 March 1944, as (DE-712), a Rudderow Class Destroyer Escort at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City MI.
  • Launched, 15 June 1944
  • Redesignated, a Crosley Class High-speed Transport, 17 July 1944
  • Commissioned USS Cavallaro (APD-128), 13 March 1945, LCDR. E. P. Adams, USNR, in command
  • During World War II USS Cavallaro was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater; TransDiv One Hundred Six, CAPT. F. W. Schmidt USN (20)
  • Following World War II USS Cavallaro was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 18 September to 12 October 1945
  • Decommissioned, 17 May 1946 at San Diego, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group
  • Recommissioned, 4 September 1953
  • Decommissioned, 15 October 1959, at Long Beach, CA. and transferred to South Korea the same day, renamed ROKS Kyung-Nam (APD-81)
  • Struck from the US Naval Register, 15 November 1974
  • Decommissioned by the Korean Navy, 29 December 2000
  • Final Disposition, sunk as a target in March or April 2003
    Specifications: +
    Displacement 1,400 t.(lt), 2,300 t.(fl)
    Length 306' ovl.
    Beam 37"
    Draft 12' 7" (limiting)
    Speed 23.6 kts. (trial)
    Range 6,000 nautical miles at 12 kts.
    Complement
    Officers 12
    Enlisted 192
    Troop Accommodations
    Officers 12
    Enlisted 150
    Largest Boom Capacity 10 t.
    Boats four LCVP landing craft
    Troop Accoutrements
    six 1/4 ton trucks
    two 1 ton trucks
    four ammunition carts
    four pack howitzers
    Storage
    Ammunition 6,000 cu. ft.
    General Cargo 3,500 cu. ft.
    Gasoline 1,000 cu. ft.
    Armament
    one single 5"/38 cal dual purpose gun mount
    three twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    six single 20mm AA gun mounts
    two depth charge tracks
    Fuel Capacities
    NSFO 2,216 Bbls
    Diesel 93 Bbls
    Propulsion
    two Combustion Engineering "D" Express boilers, 435psi 750°
    two General Electric Turbines, (turbo-electric drive)
    Ship's Service Generators
    2 turbo-drive 300Kw 450V A.C.
    two turbo-drive 40Kw 120V D.C.
    two propellers, shp 12,000
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    Cavallaro 76k USS Cavallaro (APD-128) underway while exiting San Diego Bay, date unknown. Don Scott, YNCS(SS), USN, Ret
    LSM-298 121k USS Cavallaro (APD-128) moored pierside with USS LSM-298 secured to her port side and an LCT secured to the port side of LSM-298, date and location unknown. USS LSM / LSMR Association
    Cavallaro 98k Broadside view of USS Cavallaro (APD-128) off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, while running trials 22 March 1955. Cavallaro was undergoing repairs at Mare Island from 6 January to 28 March 1955.
    Mare Island Naval Shipyard photo # 24922-3-55, 3/22/55.    		 Darryl Baker
    Cavallaro 92k Stern view of USS Cavallaro (APD-128) off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, while running trials 22 March 1955. The ship to the right could be Uvalde (AKA 88) since shipyard logs indicate she was running trials on the same date.
    Naval Shipyard photo # 24924-3-55, 3/22/55.    		 Darryl Baker
    Cavallaro 97k Broadside view of USS Cavallaro (APD-128) off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, while running trials 22 March 1955.
    Naval Shipyard photo # 24926-3-55, 3/22/55.    		 Darryl Baker
    Cavallaro 20k USS Cavallaro (APD-128) off Long Beach Naval Shipyard, circa 1959-60. Photo by Capt. Don Bodron USCG, Ret.
    ROKS Kyung-Nam (APD-81)
    Cavallaro 89k Ex-Cavallaro (APD-128) in the service of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) as ROKS Kyung-Nam underway, date and location unknown. Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Cavallaro 237k ROKS Kyung-Nam moored to a buoy, date and location unknown.  
    Cavallaro 53k ROKS Kyung-Nam underway, circa 1961, location unknown.
    Official Photo Korean Navy, Official from "Jane's Fighting Ships" 1961-62 edition.    		 Robert Hurst
    Cavallaro 58k ROKS Kyung-Nam moored pierside, date and location unknown. Tim Rizzuto
    Cavallaro 91k Various views of ex-ROKS Kyung-Nam moored pierside, date and location unknown. Tim Rizzuto
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    FC Radar 148 Gun Sight    		 98k
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