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LST-1113 / AKS-18 / APB-47 Kingman

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 - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Benawah Class Self-propelled Barracks Ship:
  • Laid down (date unknown), as LST-1113 at Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co., Evansville, IN.
  • Redesignated General Stores Issue Ship Kingman (AKS-18), 8 December 1944
  • Redesignated Self-propelled Barracks Ship (APB-47), 3 March 1945
  • Launched, 17 April 1945
  • Commissioned USS Kingman (APB-47), 27 June 1945, at New Orleans, LA.
  • Decommissioned, 15 January 1947
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 October 1977
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,189 t.(lt) 4,080 t.(fl)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Draft 11' 2"
    Speed 12 kts.
    Complement 187
    Troop Accommodations 990
    Armament eight 40mm guns, twelve 20mm guns
    Propulsion 2 General Motors 12-567 Diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
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