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LST-1003 / ARL-10 Coronis

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom,left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Achelous Class Landing Craft Repair Ship:
  • Launched, 8 June 1944, at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, MA., as LST-1003
  • Reclassified a Landing Craft Repair Ship, 12 June 1944
  • Placed in reduced commission, 29 June 1944, for transit to her conversion yard at Baltimore, MD.
  • Commissioned in full, USS Coronis (ARL-10), 28 November 1944
  • Decommissioned, 29 July 1946, at Vancouver, WA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group, Astoria, OR.
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Sold for commercial service circa 1965, renamed Trailer Princess
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • Coronis earned one battle star for World War II service
    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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    Coronis 116k Coronis (ARL-10) anchored, date and place unknown. Hyperwar, US Navy in WWII Web Site
    Coronis 118k Coronis (ARL-10), pierside, Western Pipe and Steel Co., San Francisco, CA, date unknown Capt. Jerry Mason, USN
    Tantalus 23k Tantalus (ARL-27) and Coronis (ARL-10 moored pierside at Shanghai, China, 5 April 1946. Edgar Runkel USS Tantalus
    View the Coronis (ARL-10)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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