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USS Red River (LFR-522)
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 USS Red River (LSMR-522) (1955 - 1969)
 USS LSM(R)-522 (1945 - 1955)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Juliet - Uniform - Kilo
 NJUK
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal
LSM(R)-501 Class Landing Ship Medium (Rocket):
  • Laid down, 5 May 1945, at Brown Ship Building Co, Houston, TX.
  • Launched, 9 June 1945
  • Commissioned, 6 August 1945 USS LSM(R)-522, LT. Robert W. Gutzwiller, USNR in command
  • During World War II USS LSM(R)-522 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LSM(R) Flotilla Eighteen, CAPT. C. F. Macklin USN
     LSM(R) Group Forty-Four
     LSM(R) Division One Hundred Eight
  • Decommissioned, 19 April 1946, at Green Cove Springs, FL.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs
  • Recommissioned, 2 April 1951
  • Decommissioned, 15 May 1955, at Orange, TX.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange
  • Named USS Red River LSM(R)-522, 1 October 1955
  • Reclassified Inshore Fire Support Ship (LFR-522), 1 January 1969
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1973
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS), 1 June 1974, to Inter Division Shipping Co. S.A., Panama, renamed Bilat, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement
    light 758 t.
    attack 993 t.
    fully loaded 1,175 t.
    Length 203' 6" o.a.
    Beam 34' 6"
    Draft
    light 5'4" (mean)
    attack 6'9" (mean)
    fully loaded 7'9" (mean)
    Speed 13 kts.
    Complement
    Officers 6
    Enlisted 137
    Armament
    one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    two twin 40mm gun mounts
    four twin 20mm gun mounts
    ten twin tube continuous loading 5" (SS) spin stabilizer rocket launchers
    four 4.2" mortars
    Armor 10-lb. STS on conning station, pilot-house, radio room, radar plot, and rocket control, 10-lb. ASPP around 40 and 20mm gun mounts and directors
    Fuel Capacity
    Diesel 1,225 Bbls
    Propulsion
    two General Motors 16-278A (non-reversing with airflex clutch) Diesel engines, direct drive with 1,440 BHP each @ 720rpm
    Ship's Service Generators
     four Diesel-drive 100Kw 450V A.C.
     two Diesel-drive 20Kw 120V D.C.
    twin screws 2,800 shp
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    LSMR-522 71k USS LSM(R)-522 under way off Brown Ship Building Co., Inc.'s, shipyard at Houston, TX., circa August 1945. Completion photograph, bow view, port side.
    US Navy photo, Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Houston, TX.    		 USS LSM / LSMR Association
    LSMR-522 67k USS LSM(R)-522 under way off Brown Ship Building Co., Inc.'s, shipyard at Houston, TX., circa August 1945. Completion photograph, broadside view, starboard side.
    US Navy photo, Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Houston, TX.    		 USS LSM / LSMR Association
    LSMR-522 71k USS LSM(R)-522 under way off Brown Ship Building Co., Inc.'s, shipyard at Houston, TX., circa August 1945. Completion photograph, stern view, port side.
    US Navy photo, Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Houston, TX.    		 USS LSM / LSMR Association
    LSMR-522
    100652213    		 129k USS LSM(R)-522 moored pierside possibly at Brown Ship Building Co., Inc.'s, shipyard at Houston, TX., circa August 1945. David Wright
    LSMR-522 91k USS LSM(R)-522 underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo # 120-7.    		 Jim Kurrasch
    Battleship Iowa Pacific Battleship Center
    LSMR-523/522 45k USS LSM(R)-522 and USS LSM(R)-523 moored together, circa 1945, in the Chesapeake Bay.
    Photo by Nick Neiser USS LSMR-523    		 USS LSM / LSMR Association
    LSMR-522 35k USS LSM(R)-522 at anchor in the Chesapeake Bay with USS LSM(R)-523, circa 1945. Photo by John A McDonald USS LSMR-524. Mark McDonald for his father John A. McDonald S1/c USS LSM(R)-524
    Pit River 58k Seventeen LSM(R)s at Green Cove Springs, FL. during Operation "Zipper", the process of decommissioning the fleet, commonly called "mothballing", March 1946.
    From front to back:
    USS LSM(R)-519
    USS LSM(R)-526,
    USS LSM(R)-527,
    USS LSM(R)-525,
    USS LSM(R)-524, (See Deck Log entry below)
    USS LSM(R)-529,
    USS LSM(R)-521,
    USS LSM(R)-528,
    USS LSM(R)-522,
    USS LSM(R)-531,
    USS LSM(R)-536,
    USS LSM(R)-535,
    USS LSM(R)-534,
    USS LSM(R)-520,
    USS LSM(R)-533,
    USS LSM(R)-530,
    USS LSM(R)-523,
    The USS LSMR-524 Deck Log states during the month of March 1946
    "Moored in Birth Oak 31, St. Johns River Green Cove Springs. Fla. Anchorage in 14 feet of water, mud bottom with 65 fathoms of chain to bow anchor and 495 feet of cable to the stern anchor. Nested with LSM (R) type ships: 523, 530, 533, 520, 534, 535, 536, 531, 522, 528, 521, and 529, moored to our starboard numbering from inboard to outboard. LSM(R) type ships: 525, 527, 526, and 519, moored to our port numbering from inboard to outboard , on the following bearing: bridge opening 180 .5 (T), signal tower 235 (T), pt. of land 336 (T). The following machinery in operation: #1 generator, #1 evaporator, #2 fire & flushing pumps, #2 fresh water pumps, #2 refrigeration unit."
    		Robert Hanle to the USS LSM / LSMR Association
    Log Entry submitted by Mark McDonald for his father John A. McDonald S1/c USS LSM(R)-524
    LSMR-522 51k USS LSM(R)-522 under way, date and location unknown.
    Photo courtesy Samuel L. Morison collection.    		 USS LSM / LSMR Association
    LSMR-522 91k USS LSM(R)-522, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Paul Stolarski to honor his late father EN3 Henry Stolarski, USS LSM(R)-522 Korean War.
    LSMR-522 71k USS LSM(R)-522 under way off Virginia Beach, VA. in the VACAPES operating area, date unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 USS LSM / LSMR Association
    LSMR-522 52k USS LSM(R)-522 under way off Virginia Beach, VA. in the VACAPES operating area, circa 1952.
    Photo by LT. Jorgen Strange Lorenzen, Royal Danish Navy.    		 Derick S. Hartshorn
    LSMR-522 100k USS LSM(R)-522 entering port at Norfolk, VA. in 1954.
    US Navy photo # NH 85001 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, courtesy D.M. McPherson, 1976.    		 USS LSM / LSMR Association
    LSMR-522 84k USS LSM(R)-522 under way, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 David Buell for his father CWO4 Benton E. Buell USN USS St. Francis River LSM(R)-525 1966-67.
    LSMR-522 100k USS LSM(R)-522 under way, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 David Buell for his father CWO4 Benton E. Buell USN USS St. Francis River LSM(R)-525 1966-67.
    USS LSM(R)-522 / USS Red River (LSMR-522) / USS Red River (LFR-522)
    Dictionary of American Navy Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01LT. Gutzwiller, Robert William, USNR6 August 1945 - 10 September 1945
    02LTjg. Durkin, William Anthony, USNR (temporary)10 September 1945 - 19 September 1945
    03LT. Gutzwiller, Robert William, USNR19 September 1945 - December 1945
    04LTjg. Durkin, William Anthony, USNRDecember 1945 - 17 January 1946
    05LTjg. Ginty, Robert William, USNR17 January 1946 - 19 April 1946
     Decommissioned19 April 1946 - 2 April 1951
    06LCDR. Bonnett, Ira Wilbur, USN1950s
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    USS LSM-LSMR Association
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