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USS Amycus (ARL-2)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Juliet - Quebec - Whiskey
 NJQW
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Unit Commendation - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippine Liberation Medal (1)
Achelous Class Landing Craft Repair Ship:
  • Laid down as LST-489 at Kaiser Co., Richmond, CA.
  • Reclassified Landing Craft Repair Ship, ARL-2, 13 January 1943, while building
  • Launched, 2 April 1943
  • Completed at Matson Navigation Co., San Francisco, CA.
  • Commissioned USS Amycus (ARL-2), 30 July 1943, LT. John J. Reidy, Jr., USNR in command
  • During WWII USS Amycus was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater, Service Forces 7th Fleet, and participated in the following campaigns:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Hollandia operation, 27 April to 1 June 1944 Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landings, 7 to 18 January 1945

  • Decommissioned, 15 November 1946, at San Francisco CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 June 1970
  • USS Amycus earned the Navy Unit Commendation for service in Salvage, Fire Fighting, and Rescue Unit, Service Force, 7th Fleet - Philippine Islands area, 6 January to 15 February 1945, and two battle stars for World War II service
  • Sold, 13 August 1971, to Zidell Explorations, Inc., Portland, OR.
  • Registered in 1972 by Pacific Western Lines, Inc., Seattle, WA as freight barge Tyonek homeport, Juneau, AK. and in 1975 moved to Seattle, WA.
  • Registered in 1989 by Koncor Forest Products Co., Anchorage, AK. as freight barge Tyonek, homeport, Juneau, AK.
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 3,900 t.(lt) 4,100 t.(fl)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Draft 11' 2" (lim)
    Speed 11.6 kts.
    Largest Boom Capacity 60 t.
    Complement
    Officers 22
    Enlisted 233
    Armament
    one single 3"/50 cal. dual purpose gun mount
    two quad 40mm AA gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors
    six twin 20 mm AA gun mounts
    Fuel Capacity
    Diesel 4,715 Bbls
    Propulsion
    two General Motors 12-567A Diesel engines
    single Falk Main Reduction Gears
    Ship's Service Generators
    three Diesel-drive 100Kw 120V/240V D.C.
    two Diesel-drive 100Kw 450V A.C.
    two propellers, 1,800shp
    twin rudders
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    Amycus 157k USS Amycus (ARL-2) (aft plan view) moored pierside at San Francisco, 8 August 1943.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 5780-43, 8/8/43.    		 Darryl Baker
    Amycus 123k USS Amycus (ARL-2) in San Francisco Bay, 10 August 1943, soon after commissioning. The bow doors on most ARLs of this class were welded shut.
    US National Archives Photo # 19-N-51874, RG-19 LCM a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 Robert Hurst
    Amycus 126k USS Amycus (ARL-2) in San Francisco Bay, 10 August 1943, soon after commissioning. Note the 3"/50 gun on the extreme stern with the 40 mm quad mount just forward of and above it.
    US National Archives Photo # 19-N-51875, RG-19 LCM a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 Darryl Baker and Robert Hurst
    Adonis 34k The bow of USS Amycus (ARL-2) is just visible at the far left of this photo of USS Adonis (ARL-4) anchored at Shanghai, China, 4 February 1945. Vicki Bruzas for her father Rinaldo A. Rossi, S1/c USNR USS Adonis
    Amycus 40k USS Amycus (ARL-2) and USS Atlas (ARL-7) in reserve, moored at the Stockton Group, Pacific Reserve Fleet, Stockton, CA. Ron Reeves
    USS Amycus (ARL-2)
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01LT. Reidy Jr., John Joseph, USNR30 July 1943 - 11 January 1944
    02LT. Hirsch, Louis Elwood, USNR11 January 1944 - 3 June 1944
    03CDR. Wunch Jr., Edward William, USN (Ret,) (USNA 1918)3 June 1944 - June 1946
    04LT. Roy, George Albert, USNJune 1946 - 15 November 1946
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and Russ Moody
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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