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LST-136 / ARL-8 Egeria

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal
Achelous Class Landing Craft Repair Ship:
  • Laid down, 19 June 1943, as LST-136 at Chicago Bridge and Iron Works, Seneca IL.
  • Launched, 23 November 1942
  • Placed in partial commission as USS LST-136 for transit to her conversion yard at Baltimore, MD.
  • Decommissioned at Baltimore and converted to a Landing Craft Repair Ship (ARL)
  • Recommissioned USS Egeria (ARL-8), 30 March 1944
  • Decommissioned in January 1947
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Turned over to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for disposal
  • Sold by MARAD, 1 June 1980
  • Final disposition, scrapped in 1980
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,220t. (lt.) 4,100t. (fl.)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Speed 11.6 Kts.
    Complement 255
    Armament 2 quad 40mm w/Mk. 51 directors, 2 twin 40mm w/Mk. 51 directors, 6 twin 20 mm
    Propulsion two General Motors 12-567 Diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
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