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USS Carpellotti (APD-136)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Uniform - Echo - Juliet
NUEJ
JANAP Tactical Voice Radio Call Sign - Giggle Xray

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

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

Crosley Class High-speed Transport:

Laid down, 10 October 1944, at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, MI.

Launched, 10 March 1945

Commissioned USS Carpellotti (APD-136), 30 July 1945, LCDR. J. V. Brown, USNR, in command

USS Carpellotti was assigned to Occupation service in Europe from 6 October 1952 to 26 January 1953

Decommissioned, 21 April 1958, at Norfolk, Va.

Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 December 1959

Sold for commercial service, 20 June 1960, for $141,474 to Diamond Manufacturing Co., Savannah, GA, and used in the construction of the Norfolk-Portsmouth VA. bridge and tunnel project

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping by Diamond Manufacturing Co. in 1966 to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, MD,

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
96k	*USS Carpellotti* (APD-136)** being launched at DeFoe Shipbuilding, 10 March 1945	Submitted by Thomas E Perry, APD-136 Association Source DeFoe Shipbuilding, pub March 1945
44k	Photo of rollover method of shipbuilding used at DeFoe to build *USS Carpellotti* (APD-136)**	Submitted by Thomas E Perry, APD-136 Association Source DeFoe Shipbuilding, pub March 1945
124k	*USS Carpellotti* (APD-136)** in the Chesapeake Bay, 1946.	Submitted by Thomas E Perry, APD-136 Association Source CAPT. George E Brandt, USN Ret CO 15 Nov 45 to 6 Sep 47
53k	*USS Carpellotti* (APD-136)** underway, circa 1947, location unknown.	Robert Hurst
93k	*USS Carpellotti* (APD-136)** in the Chesapeake Bay, 1947. US Navy photo	Submitted by Thomas E Perry, APD-136 Association Source CAPT. Alvin L Gallin, USN Ret CO 6 Sep 47 to 13 Aug 49
61k	*USS Carpellotti* (APD-136) going alongside USS Siboney (CVE-112)** to refuel enroute to the Persian Gulf, 14 July 1948. US Navy photo	Submitted by Thomas E Perry, APD-136 Association Source CAPT. Alvin L Gallin, USN Ret CO 6 Sep 47 to 13 Aug 49
33k	*USS Carpellotti* (APD-136)** underway, circa 1952, location unknown.	Robert Hurst
46k	*USS Carpellotti* (APD-136)** underway, circa 1953, location unknown. US Navy photo	Robert Hurst
87k	*USS Carpellotti* (APD-136)** at Tangiers, Morocco, April 1955	Submitted by Thomas E Perry, APD-136 Association Source Neil Ross MM1 USN USS Carpellotti June 1953-January 1957
136k	*USS Carpellotti* (APD-136)** at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, February 1956	Submitted by Thomas E Perry, APD-136 Association Source Neil Ross MM1 USN USS Carpellotti June 1953-January 1957
118k	*USS Carpellotti* (APD-136)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, September 1962	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.