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LST-82 / ARL-6


ARL-6 was transferred via lend-lease to Great Britain and designated LSE-2, later transferred to Argentina and named ARA Ingeniero Gadda (Q-22)
Achelous Class Landing Craft Repair Ship:
  • Laid down, 25 March 1943, at Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Co., Jeffersonville, IN.
  • Launched, 9 June 1943
  • Redesignated Achelous Class Landing Craft Repair Ship ARL-6, 20 July 1943
  • Commissioned USS ARL-6, 26 July 1943
  • Decommissioned, 2 August 1943 and transferred to the United Kingdom
  • ARL-6 never saw active service with the United States Navy
  • Royal Navy History
  • Commissioned into the Royal Navy as HM LSE-2, 2 August 1943
  • Converted to an LSE at Norfolk, VA., in September 1943
  • Departed Norfolk, bound for Oran, December 1943, in convoy carrying US troops
  • Sailed to Algiers and Bougie, then Malta
  • Departed Malta in February 1944, arrived at Portland, March 1944
  • Anchored off Normandy approx. D+5, repairing small naval vessels until end of July
  • Back to Portsmouth then Larne, Northern Ireland
  • Took part in the invasion of southern France
  • Visited Toulon and Marseilles, Ajaccio, Naples, Taranto, Palermo, Malta, Aden, Cochin, Bombay and Madras.
  • Transported doctors and nurses from Colombo to Sumatra
  • Steamed to Batavia, Java, then Singapore at Christmas 1945
  • Ship returned to US Naval custody and paid off, 21 May 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 29 October 1946
  • Final Disposition, sold, 20 August 1947, to Argentina, renamed ARA Ingeniero Gadda (Q-22)
  • Decommissioned by the Argentine Navy, 25 August 1960
  • Sold by the Argentina in 1968, to Bottachi S. A. (Argentina), for trade between Argentina and Brazil,
    renamed MV Tierra Del Fuego Signal (L Q L A)
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    ARL Specifications:
    Displacement 2,220t. (lt.) 4,100t. (fl.)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Speed 11.6 Kts.
    Complement 255
    Armament
    2 quad 40mm AA gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors
    2 twin 40mm AA gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors
    6 twin 20 mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion two General Motors 12-567 Diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
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